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Healthy At 100
$24.00 CAD |
Why do some people age in failing health and sadness, while others grow old with vitality and joy?
Ever more of us are living longer, but our added years are too often years of suffering and disability… We are being shown that something precious is possible—a far brighter future in which aging is enjoyable and desirable. And we are being shown the practical steps we can take to achieve it.
In Healthy at 100, author of Diet for a New America John Robbins presents us with a new paradigm of aging, showing how we can increase not only our lifespan but also our health span. Through the lens of four different cultures that produce some of the world’s healthiest, oldest people, Robbins reveals keys for living a long and fulfilling life in which our later years are a period of wisdom and vitality.
From Abkhasia in the Caucasus south of Russia, where age is beauty, and Vilcabamba in the Andes of South America, where laughter is the greatest medicine, to Hunza in Central Asia, where dance is ageless, and finally the Japanese islands of Okinawa, where people regularly live beyond a century, John examines how the unique lifestyles of these peoples can influence and improve our own.
Bringing the traditions of these vibrantly healthy cultures together with the latest in medical science, Robbins reveals that, remarkably, they both point in the same direction. The result is an inspirational synthesis of years of research into healthy aging in which Robbins has isolated the characteristics that will enable us to live long and joyous lives. With an emphasis on simple, wholesome, but satisfying fare, and the addition of a manageable daily exercise routine, many people can experience great improvement in the quality of their lives now and for years to come. But Robbins found it is not diet and exercise alone that helps people to live well past 100. The quality of personal relationships is enormously important. With medical evidence about the effects of our interactions with others, he asserts that loneliness has more impact on lifespan than such known vices as smoking. There is clearly a strong beneficial power to love and connection.
“We all have the tools to live longer lives, and to remain active, productive, and resourceful until the very end,” Robbins writes. Healthy at 100 strives to improve both the quality and the quantity of our remaining years—no matter how old or how healthy we might currently be—and to reverse the social stigma on aging.
“Healthy at 100 is a marvelous blend of wisdom, hope, courage, and common sense. John Robbins gives us caring, science, and inspiration—a beautiful diet for the heart.” —Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart