My guess is blue zones are countries that have good social programs and medical systems. Also helpful are regions where the environment isn't going to kill you.
I'm in a job now where I am stuck in a chair for eight hours. I wish I could go for a walk.
Even my other non-work activities after suffered because I am mentally numb at the end of the day. My health is noticeably poorer.
I used to go to the time gym a few times a week but as I got older gym life always is like a 20-something bar dating scene it felt alien and annoying to me.
I have gone for a few bike rides on the weekends and that alone has helped I can feel it. But overall I'm am not even maintaining my health over the year. Summertime I can be active outside and weekends but the winter is the worst for no activity and more calories.
Possibly caused by a virus. A person can develop type 1 diabetes from the effects of a virus like measles and other viruses. I don't think many people are aware of that.
Autoimmune conditions can stem from viral infections, yes. But most of the time type-1 diabetics have a very weak phenotype of the disease, that is to say, the patient has pancreatic antibodies (specifically beta-cell antibodies) and produces them very, very slowly.
According to this source, half of all "new cases" (whatever that means) occurs in adults: https://diabetesjournals.org/care/article/44/11/2449/138477/...
Three Sister is a common technique. At least in my region for First Nations people (as we say here). Three Sisters is corn/maize, squash, pole beans (climbing).
Squash leaves are big so shade the roots of the corn, the beans fix nitrogen in the soil, the corn stalks give the beans something to climb on.
Then there is the food types each providing different nutrition.
I always wonder how common it was. You hear it mentioned anytime agriculture stuff gets brought up, but I wonder if it was a small group of people doing this and then everyone acting like all natives did it, or if it was actually widespread as people make it out to be.
In my region the local First Nations people, Mi'Kmaq, teach it to students in local schools. One school made a garden and planted the corn, beans, squash. So at least here it's been talked about. I think they are, rightly, proud of the technique and implementing it. So I would say at least in this region of Mi'Kmaq (south eastern Canada) it was known about and used.
This was often supplemented by burying a fish or other animal near/in where the Three Sisters were planted, providing ample nutrients for less perishable foodstuffs to grow.
I think lobsters was a big part of that. The lobsters used to be in the waters near shorelines supposedly. Even recently i.e. early 1900s before lobster was popular I've heard farmers would gather them on beaches and use them for fertilizer. I live on an island so it's a common thing here to have farms near beaches.
I wonder if in the near future we all just share phones like you would a phone booth. Have devices everywhere or the capability on any device or anything electronic since it will be all wireless and connected anyway. You'd sign in via bio-metrics or some way to securely and uniquely identify yourself quickly.
How much data is on your phone? How much sensitive data is on there? Do you really want to wait to download all that crap, and run the risk of picking up a public phone that’s been set up to clone it all somewhere?
From my experience auditing companies seem too erratic too in their findings.
At an old job we had one Auditing firm (Deloitte or KPMG??) auditor who found a lot of issues. The auditor found a single cash register receipt among a year's worth of receipts, a pile, with the login name the supervisor not the employee. The supervisor forgot to log off and an employee used the cash register for one or two sales.
A new auditing firm the next year found no issues which I knew was bull since the place changed over staff a dozen times and new management was far more incompetent.
Climate change too. Even weeds people don't or can't eat have less nutrients in them. That's quite disturbing plants are not as nutritious but you can't tell that by looking at them.
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