Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Physical and Spiritual Well-Being
Author: Andrew Weil
Hugely informative, practical, and uplifting. Healthy Aging is infused with the engaging candor and common sense that have made Dr. Andrew Weil our most trusted source on healthy living.
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT:
– The Anti-inflammatory Diet: following Dr. Weil's guide to eating right for a healthy lifestyle
– Separating myth from fact about vitamins, herbs, hormones, anti-aging "medicines," and other would-be elixirs of life extension
– Mastering exercise, breathing, and stress-management techniques to benefit your mind and body
– Understanding the science behind the aging process
– Sharing life lessons with your loved ones
Publishers Weekly
America's best-known complementary care physician offers a convincing portrait of aging as a natural part of life that can be active, productive and satisfying. Using the examples of his mother, who died at age 93; centenarians from Okinawa and Sardinia; and myths and legends, Weil (Eating Well for Optimum Health) explores common Western beliefs and attitudes about aging and urges readers to develop healthier perspectives. The 60-year-old author assesses the growing and lucrative field of anti-aging medicine, takes the position that aging is not reversible, and offers many ways for readers to prevent conditions and illnesses that limit mortality and ensure well-being into the later years. He provides scientifically based information on why and how the body ages and advice on key components of good health at every age: exercise, nutrition, vitamins and herbs, and stress-relieving activities. Much of this advice is available in Weil's previous works as well as on his Web site. The real value is Weil's courageous stand, one likely to meet resistance in a culture devoted to external indicators of eternal youth. Refreshingly, Weil embraces the notion, popular in Eastern cultures, that age brings wisdom, peace and prosperity of a different kind. Agent, Richard Pine. (Oct. 18) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
Library Journal
In his latest book, Weil (director, Program in Integrative Medicine, Univ. of Arizona; 8 Weeks to Optimum Health) explains the aging process and offers practical guidelines for maintaining good health while growing older. He begins with a discussion of the physiological processes involved before segueing into various antiaging therapies and explaining why they don't work. Using reputable scientific studies as a basis, he provides tools that will help us age well: good nutrition to minimize inflammation, the cause of cardiovascular disease; physical activity; a few well-chosen nutritional supplements; adequate rest and sleep; stress reduction; and a satisfying social and spiritual life. Although this is not groundbreaking information, Weil's inclusion of scientific sources sets his book apart from the glut of antiaging titles, e.g., Michael F. Roizen's The RealAge Makeover: Take Years Off Your Looks and Add Them to Your Life. Highly recommended for public and consumer health libraries. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 6/1/05.]-Barbara M. Bibel, Oakland P.L. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
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The Higher Self: The Magic of Inner and Other Fulfillment
Author: Deepak Chopra
THE YOU INSIDE OF YOU
The world's foremost producer of personal development and motivational audio programs now presents the key to spiritual understanding and personal fulfillment.
Why are you here? What do you really need? How can you get it? Inside you there's a "you" who knows the answers to these questions -- a "higher self" that resides in each of us that is naturally boundless, totally intelligent and completely free.
In this revolutionary audio program, Dr. Deepak Chopra, author of the bestsellers Perfect Health, Quantum Healing and Ageless Body, Timeless Mind combines modern science and ancient spirituality to show you how to reach your higher self and its empowering source of intelligence that will help you:
* Eliminate fear, judgement and other obstacles to spiritual growth
* Utilize your intuitive healing ability
* Experience an increased sense of self-worth
By learning to balance the material, psychological and spiritual levels of your being, you'll become a more peaceful, harmonious, whole person in everything you do.
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