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"How do some people avoid the slowing down, deteriorating, and weakening that plagues many of their peers decades earlier? Are they just lucky? Or do they know something the rest of us don't? Is it possible to grow older without getting sicker? What if you could look and feel fifty through your eighties and nineties? Founder of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and one of the leading pioneers of longevity...
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Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Building and retaining physical strength is integral to living a fuller, longer life. Lifting weights can reduce the symptoms of everything from osteoarthritis and back pain to depression and diabetes. In Strength Training for Seniors, certified personal trainer Paige Waehner provides a detailed twelve-week strength program to help you safely and gradually build power, balance, and resistance with simple, easy-to-follow exercises"--
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Two Rivers Distribution
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Mayo Clinic on Healthy Aging discusses the biology of aging — why we age and how to slow the aging process. It delves into common health and lifestyle concerns and outlines steps that readers can take to enjoy longer and more purposeful lives.
Researchers are finding that genes play a smaller role in overall health than most individuals realize. More often, the life people lead in their later years is a culmination of personal attitudes, decisions...
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
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After years of dedicated study and research that took him to six continents, Cherniske has arrived at a new paradigm that radically alters our understanding of the aging process and the human potential for longevity. Far from giving out due to inevitable wear and tear, the human body is naturally endowed with astonishing powers of renewal, self-repair, and regeneration. The secret to unlocking these powers lies not in genetic tinkering or a high-tech...
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Eightysomethings is a must-read for people in their eighties, and also for their families. Adult children—often bewildered by their aging parents—need a wise guide like Eightysomethings to help them navigate their parents’ last stage of life with real-world guidelines and conversation starters. Readers, young and old alike, will find this first-of-its-kind book eye-opening, comforting, and filled with practical tips.
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Harperwave
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Actress Cameron Diaz opens a conversation with her peers on a topic that for too long has been taboo in our society: the aging female body. She shares the latest scientific research on how and why we age, synthesizing insights from top medical experts with her own thoughts, opinions, and experiences. The Longevity Book explores what history, biology, neuroscience, and the womens health movement can teach us about maintaining optimal health as we transition...
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Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"In Aging Backwards: The Fast Track, Miranda offers readers systematic workouts to supplement and accelerate the original program, along with new information on the latest anti-aging science to help keep us strong, fully mobile, and looking and feeling young. Using her 30-day fast-track program, you’ll see rapid results in increased mobility, strength, flexibility, body shape, pain relief and overall health. Aging Backwards: The Fast Track empowers...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Every forty seconds, someone in the US suffers a heart attack or stroke, and every sixty-five seconds someone develops dementia. The culprit is cardiovascular disease—and rates are soaring in younger, seemingly healthy people. World- renowned cardiovascular specialists Bradley Bale, MD, and Amy Doneen, DNP, have pioneered a lifesaving method to prevent these devastating events—and reverse the disease that causes them. The BaleDoneen Method...
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ABC News
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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"From a potential breakthrough pill to controversial rejuvenation technologies, Walters reports on what the future may hold, as well as what one expert says is the only proven way to extend life. The special also explores secrets to aging gracefully and living life to its fullest, from 83-year-old actor turned race car driver Paul Newman to a group of centenarians"--Container.
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Sounds True
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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Cultivate Longevity: Foundational Practices. Includes exercises for harmonizing the body with the natural world, promoting inner tranquility, improving circulation, aiding organ function, and strengthening the immune system. Taught by John P. Milton.
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Mayo Clinic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"We are in the midst of a longevity revolution. And that's particularly true for women: Women can expect to live five years longer than men. A 50-year-old woman can expect to live another 35 years, on average. Women comprise 80% of centenarians, now the fastest growing segment of the world's population. But despite these incredible statistics showing how women are living longer, women are not living well. Women typically spend the last 14 years of...
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c2001
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English
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Presents key findings from the twenty-five-year Okinawa Centenarian Study that provides insights into why Okinawans are the healthiest and longest-lived population in the world, and features a four-week plan for adopting a similar lifestyle, including nearly one hundred recipes.
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National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"NY Times best-selling author Dr. Michael Roizen reveals how the food choices you make each day--and when you make them--can affect your health, your energy, your sex life, your waistline, your attitude, and the way you age. What if eating two cups of blueberries a day could prevent cancer? If drinking a kale-infused smoothie could counteract missing an hour's worth of sleep? When is the right time of day to eat that chocolate chip cookie? And would...
76) The Risen Empire
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Series
Succession volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
When the empire is challenged by a band of machine-augmented humans who seek to put their own gods in control by kidnapping the Immortal Child Empress, captain Laurent Zal of the Imperial Frigate Lynx is charged with her rescue.
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Publisher
New Page Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
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This book gives you all the information you need to undertake a safe, health-improving exercise regimen. These ancient Chinese exercises are fun and low impact and help to alleviate the pains of arthritis, fibromyalgia, carpal tunnel syndrome, and many other "senior" diseases. The book presents an overview of the practice of t'ai chi-from the principles of the movements to the history of the art itself. It discusses various positions and helps you...
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Featuring delicious recipes, simple meal-planning techniques, manageable movement strategies, and supportive wellness rituals, The 17 Day Kickstart Diet is a clear-cut guide that proves it is never too late to achieve optimal health. Even in the middle of the chaos that life can sometimes dish up, you can still prioritize your wellness with the right plan. Within seventeen days, you will start losing weight, reducing inflammation, and experiencing...