Living to 100: Lessons in Living to Your Maximum Potential at Any Age
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...a comprehensive and encouraging book that includes pictures, stories, healthy-aging tips, and scientific information.
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Centenarians, once considered a rarity, are the world's fastest growing age group: there are currently about 50,000 people over 100 in the United States alone, almost three times as many as there were in 1980. What can we learn from these pioneers? How can people decades younger apply the centenarians' longevity lessons to their own lives? These are the questions Harvard scientists Thomas Perls and Margery Hutter Silver set out to answer when they launched the New England Centenarian Study (NECS). The authors have studied more than one hundred centenarians, interviewing them in their homes, scrutinizing their family trees, assessing their physical and mental health. As they probed beyond disease to identify the parameters of an energetic later life, Perls and Silver realized that the key to preserving health and vitality lies not in learning how people stay young, but in understanding how they age well. By identifying lifestyle patterns, vitamins, and medications that contribute to aging well - and may even help slow down the aging process - they show how all of us can maximize the healthy portion of the lifespan.
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Living to 100: Lessons in Living to Your Maximum Potential at Any Age
Living to 100: Lessons in Living to Your Maximum Potential at Any Age,Thomas T. Perls,Margery Hutter Silver,John F. Lauerman,Basic Books,0465041434,Aging,Consumer Health,Healthy Living,Longevity,Physiology,Politics/International Relations,Coping with old age
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