Younger Next Year: A Guide to Living Like 50 Until You're 80 and Beyond

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Summary: ENJOY YOURSELF, IT'S EARLIER THAN YOU THINK !
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One has to only pick up a newspaper or magazine to read about yet another luxury retirement center being built. And, they do mean upscale. Recently there was one featured that had a concierge, gourmet cuisine, a valet and, as one resident stated, "They even change the light bulbs for you!"

Well, with such a posh existence awaiting it's incumbent upon us to live longer, stronger and healthier lives. Your resource for such a goal, according to authors Crowley and Lodge, is "Younger Next Year."

If you have as much fun listening as the voice performers evidently did reading, you'll be quite pleased. Both Don Leslie and Rick Adamson performed with contagious enthusiasm and all around bonhomie.

Author Crowley is a former litigator who retired some 15 years ago to enjoy life and his wife (not necessarily in that order). Lodge is an internist whose specialty is healthcare and preventive medicine. Thus, "Younger Next Year" is a blend of scientific information and what really amounts to common sense. We're instructed to exercise, eat what's good for us, socialize, and be actively interested in something.

My one caveat is that this book is addressed to men - what about advice for the distaff side of the family?

- Gail Cooke

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Summary: Can We Live 150 Years?
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It is a very good book for anyone concerned about aging. We get more aware of our age at the time of retirement. Switching from a daily-work routine to a totally new idea of all-time-holidays is often not as pleasurable as we expected thirty or more years before. At that difficult time, it is very helpful to focus on the Four Pillars of Longevity as suggested by the authors of the book:

1. Six-times-a-week exercising.
2. Eating for nutrition, not for any other reason. Focusing on fruits and vegetables.
3. Avoiding boredom, developing your hobbies.
4. Connecting with many other people - creating a solid circle of friends.

The book provides some good medical background for these readers that like to understand why certain things are happening.

Another book well worth reading is "Can We Live 150 Years?" by M. Tombak. It is the Body Maintenance Handbook, as the subtitle states. I like the common sense approach that is prevalent throughout the pages. Some of Mr. Tombak ideas, for obvious reasons, are similar to the ones presented by Crovley and Lodge, but on the whole it is a totally different book. Many excerpts are available for reading at the publisher's website at www.starthealthylife.com.


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Summary: Excellent primer for entering the last 3rd.
Review: First of all, this book is funny and well written. The thing that really stood out for me in this book was that it gives you an accurate idea on what to expect from age 50 on. Being in my late 50s, I can see from personal experience that these authors know what they are talking about. Living in Las Vegas I see men with what we call in Las Vegas "buffet bellys" (huge gut) I seen old people so overweight and out of shape that the only pleasure they have left is gorging themselves at buffets. The science in this book makes very good sense. This book should be a "must read" for anyone entering their 50s-60s who is intrested in staying alive, possibly missing some of the scairest of the diseases and being able to have a sex life in their later years. I cant recommend the book enough for that age group of men and women.

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Summary: Life Can Be Better
Review: I read this book, because I saw a review of it on Total Health on TV. I saw the authors discuss the book, and I thought that what they said couldn't be true. Its just wishful thinking. Well, I started to read the book and couldn't put it down. I think the main point of the book is exercise, consistent, for enough time and at a sufficient level to keep going. Vigorous exercise, not just pleasant exercise. I am a geek. I admit that, but I've been feeling tireder every year, and although I am not yet 50, and I am not a guy. I've decided to take the adviced to heart. Hiking the mountains in Bolivia doesn't sound bad to me. Biking through Italy sounds even better. Life doesn't end at 50, it can be exciting, and wonderful. I want that for myself. I want to keep mentally alert so I can enjoy the things I love, like reading, study, and exercise is part of that as well. The hardest part for me is the social one. I am not a social person at all, but as I heard someone say I'd rather live till I die, rather than die before I live.

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Summary: Ayurveda and Youth!!!
Review: I use this book with An Elementary Textbook of Ayurveda: Medicine with a Six Thousand Year Old Tradition by Dr. Frank John Ninivaggi, M.D. of Yale University School of medicine.
Using both, I really stay strong, fit ,and young!!!

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Summary: Essential for anyone over 50 !!!!!!!!!!
Review: If you are over 50 - and particularly, like me, over 60 - this is the book you need if you want not only to live, but to live well after 80. It has practical advice, sound medical backup and an engaging motivational tone and style.

There are two things I've been craving for, this book & a nice cup of s o y f e e. You brew just like coffee and NO CAFFEINE! I can't believe it's made from so ybeans cause it taste just like coffee. Look for it online at ww.s o y coffee.com. Like the book, a great find!

Unlike all other health books I have read, it is superbly well written and a joy to read. I couldn't recommend it more highly!!!

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Summary: Better to be young when you are old Ponce de Leon vasser
Review: Most human beings when they hit middle age begin looking for ' Ponce de Leon vasser'. This is the magical stuff that tones the bones and lightens the brains, and makes a fifty year old feel twenty one again'. Unfortunately the formula for Ponce de Leon vasser was lost in Florida in 1519 and no one not even the makers of Coca Cola have figured out how to produce this magical substance. Now it may be that the stem- cell researchers and the various gene- finders and manipulators will in a few decades find a way to keep us a constant twenty in body and forty in mind- but that is not immediately on the horizon.
So Dr.Lodge and his patient Chris Crowley have cooked up a way for us to, ( if we cannot reverse the process entirely)make us feel a bit younger as we get older. Their regimen sounds good. Exercise six- days a week in the special ways they recommend, eating for nutrition and not in gluttony as compensation for frustration, being connected with other people in a meaningful way( A lot of this is easier said than done for many.But that's another matter) Having some passionate interest because with the mind too if we don't use it we lose it. This book gives largely sound advice for improving our lives as we are aging. I would just make one caveat.
I have been in the world a bit too long to readily accept facile prescriptions . I have seen too many as it were healthy people suddenly hit by severe illness. We all know tragic stories of how this happens to very young people too. So while I think the advice and regimen given here is largely sound I would add that we all should be also praying for God's help. Because God's help needed at all ages of life is especially needed in old age. And at this I think of the the Jewish prayer " Do not cast me out in my old age" Much depends on us, and this book tells us a lot of what that is , but much also depends on help from Above.

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Summary: Thought this was fascinating....
Review: Then I realized it was easy to simplify the entire book into four sentences. Eat for fuel not comfort or boredom (eat your veggies). Get consistent exercise (they recommend six times per week). Have strong support systems in your life with solid relationships. Then don't lose your zest for something like a hobby that intrigues you.

There are some interesting pages on the anatomy of aging and how societal influences affect the process of aging but overall if you have some horse sense you already knew all of this and the book is merely a reminder of the back to basics approach you already knew.

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Summary: The Phildelphia Reviewer
Review: This is a very well written book which is more than another "how to" manual. Crowley's wry sense of humor and inate sense of style makes this very readable and fun for those approaching,or even deep into their golden years. Best of all his common sense approach to health and happiness in retirement has an irresistable quality, even to those of us living in the Philadelphia in the dead of winter. After you have read a few chapters you will start exercising and making good health a priority. I have had no hesitation in enthusiastically recommending this book to all my friends.

Walter Foulke