{"id":50183,"date":"2015-06-08T01:25:40","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T01:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/peter_bowes_is_this_the_secret_to_living_longer\/"},"modified":"2015-06-08T01:25:40","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T01:25:40","slug":"peter_bowes_is_this_the_secret_to_living_longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50183","title":{"rendered":"Peter Bowes: Is this the secret to living longer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where has the weekend gone? For that matter, what happened to last month?<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re anything like me, your precious time is gobbled by a pinging phone, a bouncing email icon and the ubiquitous stack of admin.<\/p>\n<p>But what if we could stop everything, for just 24 hours, to rest, reboot and refocus? Take a day away from the gadgets, gizmos, to-do lists and anything remotely connected to work. Could that be the elusive secret to a long and healthy life?<\/p>\n<p>I first became enthralled by this possibility when I worked on a BBC documentary, Living Longer in Lovely Hill, in which I met the Seventh Day Adventists of Loma Linda, a quiet university town about 100km east of Los Angeles. They are one of the longest-lived groups of people in the world and scientific studies have linked their lifestyle to increased longevity.<\/p>\n<p>Members of this evangelical Christian community live up to 10 years longer than most Americans&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/capital\/story\/20150601-the-24-hour-shutdown-experiment\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where has the weekend gone? For that matter, what happened to last month? If you\u2019re anything like me, your precious time is gobbled by a pinging phone, a bouncing email icon and the ubiquitous stack of admin. But what if<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50183\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,433,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-social-networking","category-blogging-the-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}