The AARP/Blue Zones Vitality Project sponsored by United Health Foundation set out to create America's healthiest hometown by adding 10,000 years of healthy life to its residents. The Vitality Project team chose Albert Lea, a small town in southern Minnesota, for this innovative makeover.

In January 2009, the team began working with Albert Lea's town leaders to transform the community into a healthier place to live.

On September 8, we began a six-week online experience that will teach you how to live longer, better. To follow the Project, check it out at AARP.org.

You can join us, by the way, wherever you are. Sign up by taking the Vitality Compass® at AARP.org. You'll get a sense of how long you may live, given your current lifestyle, and you'll become part of a growing movement to make healthy living easy and fun.