Essential Nutrients
Heart Health
The Blue Zones
100

You will only last about three days without this essential nutrient...

What is water?

100

This is the number of minutes of physical activity we need each day to be healthy...

What is 60?

100

People in the Blue Zones eat a diet of mostly this type of food...

What is PLANTS?

200

Whole grains, brown rice, and oatmeal are all examples of this essential nutrient...

What are (complex) carbohydrates?

200

This type of food is very unhealthy for your heart.

What is fried food?

OR 

Other answers: junk food, meat and cheese

200

In the Blue Zones, these are the people that are most important...

What is FAMILY?

300

Essential nutrients are important because...

They help your body function 

OR 

You cannot make them on your own.

300

This Component of Fitness involves exercises that work your heart and lungs...

What is Cardiorespiratory Endurance?

300

In the Blue Zones, people stop eating when..

What is their 80% FULL?

400

The healthiest sources of fat are found in this type of food...

What are nuts and seeds?

OR,

What are plants?

400
This disease is the number one cause of early death for American adults....

What is Heart Disease?

400

In the Blue Zones, people belong to this type of community...

What is a FAITH community?

500

This material found in many plant foods keeps things moving through your digestive system...

What is fiber?

500

Along with poor diet and lack of exercise, this nasty habit is a top cause of poor heart health...

What is tobacco (or nicotine)?

500

In Okinawa, people spend a lifetime trying to find their Ikigai, which is Japanese for... 

What is THEIR PURPOSE?