Aging category: 2173 books
by Jeanne Kraus
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Existence after fifty, according to Jeanne Kraus, is fraught with peril from life-threatening underwear to homeowners' associations. Lifestyle activities are recommended, along with full schedules of doctor visits. Humiliation lurks at every corner with shotgun makeup interventions, bodily function...
by Laura Town, Karen Kassel
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
A diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease can be scary and overwhelming. This book helps unravel the mysteries of Alzheimer’s disease, including the pathological features of Alzheimer’s disease, the stages of Alzheimer’s disease and the symptoms and prognosis at each stage, and the treatment options...
Eat Less, Live Longer
Your Practical Guide to Calorie Restriction with Optimal Nutrition
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
During my third year of medical school I stumbled upon an online article about calorie restriction with optimal nutrition. I read about an apparently simple diet intervention that prolonged the average and maximum lifespan of laboratory animals such as yeast, fruit flies, worms and mice. At that time,...
by Linda Burke
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2011
In this sixth book of The Now What? Fitness Series, certified personal fitness trainer Linda Burke delves into working out at home.
"The Media often leaves you confused, ill-informed, or even worse: completely scammed or lied to with offers of quick fixes, magic potions, or crazy contraptions...
Coping with Your Difficult Older Parent
A Guide For Stressed Out Children
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Do You Have
An Aging Parent Who --
Blames you for everything that goes wrong?
Cannot tolerate being alone, wants you all the time?
Is obsessed with health problems, real, or imagined?
Make unreasonable and/or irrational demands of you?
Is hostile, negative and critical?
Coping with these...
The Structure of Healthy Life Determinants
Lessons from the Japanese Aging Cohort Studies
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
This book is the first one to examine the cause and effect of elderly people’s healthy life expectancy, providing models that are easy to understand. The novel point is the success achieved in constructing a single structural model of cause and effect of healthy life expectancy. In the final models...
Caring for Our Parents
Inspiring Stories of Families Seeking New Solutions to America's Most Urgent Health Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
When his mother-in-law died suddenly and his seriously ill father-in-law was left with no one to care for him, the author and his wife were thrust into the complex and overwhelming world of long-term care. Just months later his own father fell sick, and the couple struggled to help care for him too—from...
Transcend
Nine Steps to Living Well Forever
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
In Transcend, famed futurist Ray Kurzweil and his coauthor Terry Grossman, MD, present a cutting edge, accessible program based on the vanguard in nutrition and science. They've distilled thousands of scientific studies to make the case that new developments in medicine and technology will allow us...
Mastering the Life Plan
The Essential Steps to Achieving Great Health and a Leaner, Stronger, and Sexier Body
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Do you want to get in the best shape of your life and live like you’re twenty years younger? Learn to master the Life Plan!
In his New York Times bestseller, The Life Plan, Dr. Jeffry Life combined proven science with an appealing message—it’s never too late to transform your body. Today,...
by Joel D. Block
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
There are 78 million people now crossing the 50-year mark?and they?re redefining middle age and creating a new vision of what a fulfilling sex life means. Sex Over 50 speaks to this legion of gracefully aging Americans who are looking for professional, practical advice on how to make the transition...
Ultimate Memory Magic
The Transformative Program for Sharper Memory, Mental Clarity, and Greater Focus . . . at Any Age!
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2019
Improve your memory, sharpen your mind, and change your life—at any age!
As we age, our memories become unreliable; we misplace things and forget details. In Ultimate Memory Magic, memory expert Jim Karol shows that these side effects of aging are not inevitable. His memory-boosting system,...
The Longevity Diet
The Only Proven Way to Slow the Aging Process and Maintain Peak Vitality--Through Calorie Restrictio
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
At last, a book that explains in practical terms the concept of calorie restriction (CR)-a life-extending eating strategy with profound and sustained beneficial effects,” according to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The concept is simple and flexible: eat fewer calories...
The Great American Health Hoax
The Surprising Truth About How Modern Medicine Keeps You Sick—How to Choose a Healthier, Happier, and Disease-Free Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Described as "one of the few scientists who has achieved a breakthrough understanding of health and disease," Raymond Francis draws deeply from his years of personal experience and professional training. A chemist and a graduate of MIT, Raymond exposes the truth about why the conventional approaches...
by Christopher Hertzog
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
The object of this book, is to promote better health throughout one's life, and to give an insight into the work and life of a remarkable person, who over 60 years ago, discovered what is now generally regarded as the 'Grandmother of Anti-aging Medicine'.
This book is intended as a lay guide, covering...