The roadmap to 100: the breakthrough science of living a long and healthy life

Top gerontologist Dr. Walter Bortz shows today's baby boomers how to maintaintheir health for many years. Based on breakthrough science and a thirty-year longitudinal study of centenarians, he reveals how:. * genetics plays a smaller role in aging than previously thought. * diseases such as senility are preventable and not an inevitable. consequence of age. * healthy sexuality is a key factor in long, healthy lives. * vigorous exercise - running, biking, swimming and strength. work - can recover at least 30 years of aging. * social and professional engagement carries many of the same. benefits as physical fitness. WALTER BORTZ MD is Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, USA. Bortz is also former past co-chairman of the American Medical Association's Task Force on Aging, former president of TheAmerican Geriatric Society and is currently a senior advisor to Healthy Silicon Valley. . RANDALL STICKROD is a long-time science and technology publisherand writer, and former executive publisher of Wired. INDICE: Preface: The Double Edged Sword of Longevity * What is Aging? Aging and Health * Disuse: The Nemesis of Healthy Aging * The Roadmap to 100 * Fitand Functional - Muscle and Movement * Fit and Functional - Oxygen as Fuel* Engagement: The Necessity of Being Necessary * Sex for Life * The Healthy AgingBrain * Nutrition for Life * The Most Expensive Urine in the World - The Dubious Value of Supplements and Vitamins * The Role of Medicine * Metrics: The Measure of a Full Life * Appendix I. The Economics of Aging: Public Policy Implications * Appendix II. Personal Resources.

• ISBN: 978-0-230-11205-6
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 26/09/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés