{"id":9187,"date":"2012-05-07T07:05:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T12:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=9187"},"modified":"2012-05-03T12:19:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T17:19:25","slug":"how-old-are-you-biologically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/9187","title":{"rendered":"How old are you, biologically?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are your habits aging you prematurely and taking years off your life expectancy? Take the <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.bluezones.com\/vitality\/\" title=\"Vitality Compass link\" target=\"_blank\">Vitality Compass<\/a>, a life expectancy quiz which will tell you how long you can expect to live given your current lifestyle. You might not want to do this while you&#8217;re stressing over exams, though!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/bluzon.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of Blue Zones\" class=\"alignright\" \/>What&#8217;s the basis of this compass? You&#8217;ve probably heard of the &#8220;blue zones,&#8221; those pockets around the planet where people live longer at a higher rate than elsewhere. Well, the team studying the lifestyles of people in those zones say they share <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluezones.com\/live-longer\/power-9\/\" title=\"link to the Blue Zone Power 9\" target=\"_blank\">nine characteristics<\/a>. You can read the book, <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=w78QCR_gkKAC&#038;source=gbs_ViewAPI\" title=\"Blue Zones book summary at Google Books\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The blue zones: Lessons for living longer from the people who&#8217;ve lived the longest<\/em><\/a> (currently on reserve at Andersen Library&#8217;s Circulation Desk, RA776.75 .B84 2008; request it from another UW campus library using the free &#8220;Universal Borrowing&#8221; service; or get it at Whitewater&#8217;s public library, Non-Fiction call no. 613.2 B928 ).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are your habits aging you prematurely and taking years off your life expectancy? Take the Vitality Compass, a life expectancy quiz which will tell you how long you can expect to live given your current lifestyle. You might not want &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/9187\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[33707,33709,178,3229,278,33710,33708,33706,14,33711],"class_list":["post-9187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","tag-biological-age","tag-blue-zones","tag-books","tag-diet","tag-health","tag-life-expectancy","tag-lifestyle","tag-longevity","tag-quizzes","tag-vitality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9187"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9816,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9187\/revisions\/9816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}