Description
You're never too old-or too young-to begin living a longer, healthier life, and Living Longer For Dummies can show you how. Written by a leading national expert on aging, it's packed with life-changing tips on nutrition, exercise, attitude and behavior, that can help enhance and sustain your physical and psychological well- being to age 100 and beyond. You'll discover how to:
- Slow your rate of aging
- Reverse many of the effects of aging
- Avoid maladies associated with age
- Keep your mind and senses sharp
- Maintain limberness and muscle tone
- Keep your energy level high
- Rebound from illness
- Stay sexually active
Dr. Bortz shatters common myths about aging and explains, in plain English, what science now knows about the normal aging process in humans. And he explores a wide range of life-prolonging topics, including:
- Getting good health care
- Exercising to stay healthy for life
- Eating right for a long life
- Getting adequate rest and relaxation
- Using alternative medicine and exercise techniques
- Maintaining brain-power
- Having sex to prolong your life and coping with sexual difficulties
- Handling health crises
The number of people age 100 and older increases a whopping 8 percent every year in the United States? If you choose to, you can become one of them someday. Let Living Longer For Dummies show you how.
About the Author
Walter M. Bortz, M.D., teaches at Stanford University Medical School. He is the past president of the American Geriatrics Society and a physician at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation.
Book Information
ISBN 9780764553356
Author Walter M. Bortz
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint For Dummies
Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
Weight(grams) 345g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 159mm * 15mm