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.
Men's Health Huge in a Hurry: Get Bigger, Stronger, and Leaner in Record Time with the New Science of Strength Training
Author: Chad Waterbury
A gym rat himself and one of the world’s foremost authorities in the field of muscle-building, with a specialty in neurophysiology, Chad Waterbury has developed novel training methods that run counter to many long-accepted theories and practices. Forget lifting moderate weights slowly for lots of sets and reps. Instead, Waterbury insists that the best way to get huge in a hurry is to use heavy weights and lift them quickly for fewer repetitions. The athletes and lifters he trains and the tens of thousands who read his articles on the online bodybuilding magazine T-Nation have been reaping the benefits. And now readers of this book can too.
Designed for intermediate to advanced weight-lifters, the Men’s Health Huge in a Hurry program will enable readers to:
- add mass and size—as much as 10 pounds of muscle
- get stronger quickly—realize a 5 percent increase in strength in the first few weeks
- build power and stamina—increase their one-rep max in their core lifts by as much as 30 percent
- lose fat fast—burn off up to 10 pounds of fat, mostly in the first few weeks
The result is a set of groundbreaking workouts that maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of training time for quick and impressive results.
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