Healthy Food, It's Just the Way of Life

Kristen, the healthy food is just tough. I mean, it's just the way of life here. And we want to be stimulated but we don't want to be burning ourselves into the ground either. The environment is not set up to encourage that you have to really go out of your way to uncover the information of what does it mean to be healthy and then get your 10,000 steps per day or whatever it is that you want to do to be healthy for you.

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Can moving abroad improve your health and wellness? Tune in as Kristin speaks with a registered nurse about how different lifestyles in different countries impact your health, wellness, and quality of life. Plus, how the culture in the society you grew up in (and live in) can affect your health long-term.

"Just being aware that a lot of your lifestyle is also imprinted by the culture of the society is the first step. This is like an awareness that many of your daily habits can actually be pushed upon you by the culture that you live in. So, you're also finding a lot more people who are nearing retirement age who are opting to move to different countries so they can have a better quality of life and they can have more affordable healthcare." - Kristin Wilson

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EPISODE 189 TOPICS DISCUSSED:

Increasing your health and wellness by moving to a new city or country
Food quality in the US versus abroad
Major cultural differences that impact health and wellness: Food, exercise, pace of life, and more.
Reasons why people in Blue Zones live longer, happier lives.
Finding balance between stimulation and rest.
Why food and produce are better outside of the US.
How lengthy commuting contributes to an unhealthy lifestyle.
How labor laws impact American workers compared to other countries.
Health insurance
Protecting your physical and mental health at home and abroad
The dangers of non-US countries adopting American work and lifestyle practices.
Kristin also shares her experience with severe burnout and how that health crisis led her to move to Costa Rica and never look back.
Kristin contrasts the lifestyle of the 60 countries she's lived/worked in with the lifestyle of the United States.

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