Life Extension: Recommended Reading

1. Anti-Aging Methods that Turn Back the Clock 
2. Stress Management to Add Years to Your Life 
3. Mental Fitness to Enhance Life Expectancy 
4. Extend Your Life with the Right Nutrition 
5. Manage Your Weight 

Anti-Aging Methods that Turn Back the Clock

Vincent Giampapa, Ronald Pero, and Marcia Zimmerman present five strategies to reduce stress, enhance nutrition, exercise regularly, use dietary supplements and care for the skin.

• Say goodbye to aching joints, sagging skin and fatigue
• Improve the quality and function of the genetic material in your cells
• Ramp up your body's self-repair functions 
• Increase your stamina, endurance and sex drive
• Dramatically improve your resistance to disease, including cancers
• Have more youthful, radiant skin 

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The New Anti-Aging Revolution: Stopping the Clock for a Younger, Sexier, Happier You will give you a clear understanding of the biological processes involved in aging, the ten key body systems where decline first begins, and the culprits largely responsible for tipping the clock: vitamin and mineral deficiencies and diminishing hormone levels.

Learn how to:

• weigh the pros and cons of hormone therapy
• naturally stimulate your hormone production 
• replenish your nutrient stores 
• strengthen your immune system 
• nourish your body 
• burn fat and build lean muscle
• revitalize in your sleep 
• and maintain a youthful mind and spirit.

Featuring a longevity test to identify how old or young you really are, and the personal life extension programs of more than two dozen anti-aging specialists, The Anti-Aging Revolution is the essential resource for anyone who wants to learn how their bodies work, how they age, and what they can do about it.

3. The Anti-Aging Zone

It boils down to this: the vastly complicated hormonal action in humans is controlled by eicosanoids, what he calls "super hormones." And eating in the way advocated by The Anti-Aging Zone, he argues, can help maintain proper eicosanoid functioning, thereby preventing the litany of health problems associated with aging--both mental and physical.

Controversially, Sears recommends a daily intake of just 1,200 calories for women and 1,500 for men, about 40 percent fewer than the U.S. RDA. It's also not just a diet plan, but a lifestyle plan, with guidelines for meditation (to reduce levels of cortisol, a stress hormone) to improve brain longevity, and moderate amounts of exercise, including strength training. Sears adds a solid guide to supplements (the essential, the important, the exotic and expensive) and herbs, and a rundown of the mind-body-diet connection.

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Dr. Michael Roizen hopes to discover a cure for the common birthday. Roizen translates groundbreaking medical research into a series of calculations and choices that promise to reduce age-linked symptoms and diseases.

The RealAge Makeover begins with a self-test of 132 health factor questions that compare your calendar age with your "real age" - based on healthy habits plus heredity, he rounds up the usual suspects (sun exposure, sleep patterns, good fats) as well as the unusual (the kind of chocolate you eat, the number of nagging unfinished tasks, your catsup consumption).

Although Roizen flags heredity, he focuses on the three key factors of aging: arteries (heart attack, stroke, memory loss), immune systems (prostate and breast cancer), and environmental stresses (lung cancer, STDs).

He offers a sliding scale of difficulty in his "younger every day suggestions." Whether talking about stress, diet, or disease, Roizen offers case examples and subtle and engaging strategies such as describing the role of living beyond your means in aging or the difference between "four-legged" and "no-leg fats." As Baby Boomers age and books about turning back time increase, Roizen's will remain a standout. - Barbara Mackoff

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Stress Management to Add Years to Your Life

1. Avoiding Stress: Solving Problems for Life Extension

Would you like to go through life avoiding the usual stressors for the most part? Avoiding Stress: Solving Problems for Life Extension shows you how to do it.

Dr. Rosner has decades of experience managing stress and helping others overcome their problems with stress. This book is a product of his wisdom and the work of his family and of many 'graduated' patients who believe in Dr. Rosner's outlook on life and the importance of sharing that outlook with others.

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The Stress of Life reflects two decades of new research into stress by Dr. Hans Selye.

"What is this one mysterious condition that the most different kinds of people have in common with animals and even with individual cells, at times when much - much of anything - happens to them? This is a fundamental question in the life of everyone; it touches closely upon the essense of life and disease. Understanding the mechanism of stress gave physicians a new approach to the treatment of illness, but it can also give us all a new way of life, a new philosophy to guide our actions in conformity with natural laws."

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Mental Fitness to Enhance Life Expectancy

This revised anniversary edition contains "meditations, exercises, and techniques" that can become part of your everyday routine. Shakti Gawain is enthusiastic and realistic about the potential of visualization.

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Extend Your Life with the Right Nutrition

1. Building a Healthy Lifestyle: A Simple Nutrition and Fitness Approach

The way to good nutrition is really so simple that we all forget to incorporate the easy steps in our lives that build and lead to good health. Mary El-Baz provides a lot of sensible advice on how you can really change your life to be more physically fit and mentally alert simply by following some basic guidelines for proper eating and fitness.

Building a Healthy Lifestyle: A Simple Nutrition and Fitness Approach is an easy-to-follow guide to taking personal responsibility for building your health. Using the strategies proposed in this book, readers can easily start to develop healthy lifestyle practices to replace bad ones. Building a Healthy Lifestyle: A Simple Nutrition and Fitness Approach offers an invaluable nutritional program for anyone wishing to achieve and maintain good health.

• Learn the new basics of nutritious eating for a healthier you
• Find out how which foods provide the important antioxidants, vitamins and minerals that are crucial in maintaining your health and preventing chronic disease such as heart disease and cancer
• Create a reasonable eating plan of delicious and highly nutritious foods, including tips for choosing healthy meals when eating out
• Find out how fit you are and the easy steps to get there
• De-stress with simple relaxation techniques and sleep better
• Enjoy the benefits that come from good nutrition and fitness, from a more positive mental outlook to a more healthy glow on your skin

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Manage Your Weight

1.  Fat to Fit, Bit by Bit 

Fat to Fit, Bit by Bit promotes a proper healthy diet and offers an exercise program that is multi-faceted in nature. These, along with motivation, rest and a proper functioning nervous system are the integral components of GOOD LONG TERM HEALTH! This book puts HEALTH as the final goal in the process, with small behavioral changes over time, to accomplish that result. It is not a quick fix system but rather a methodical ongoing process of goals and results. As an additional thought, even if you don't lose all the weight you want, or become the sculptured physical specimen you expect after doing what you do, you will have gained SOME measure of better health, over the long term, and be better off for it.

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