unit 4 activity 1
Watch Dan Buettner’s How To Live To Be 100 before answering the questions. Remember to use complete sentences and include both the questions and the answers when you submit your work.


1. In the Nuoro region of Sardinia, Italy, how does the local’s environment affect their diet and nutrition?

2.Explain how Nuoro’s culture influences their attitude about elderly in their community.

3.How do the residents of Okinawa’s approach to nutrition differ from that of America? What is the effect of this approach?

4.How does the cultural tradition of Moai influence the well-being of the Okinawan community? What about the idea of ikiagi?

5.When it comes to the Seventh Day Adventists in Lomo Lina, California, how does their religion influence their nutritional choices?

6.Explain the connection between the social and cultural habits of their community and the beliefs/behaviors/food choices/nutritional health of their members.


7.Which habits does your community or family have that are similar to those found among the communities that Mr. Buettner’s group studied?

8. Do you see any habits of those communities that your own family or community could benefit from adopting?

9.After listening to Mr. Buettner summarize the lessons his group learned from studying these three communities, which habit or philosophy do you believe is most valuable and why?



wellness & nutrition