Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Well-Being

A Lifelong Guide to Your Well-Being

Author: Andrew Weil

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Now available in paperback—Dr. Weil's hugely informative, practical, and uplifting book draws on the new science of biogerentology (the biology of aging) as well as on the secrets of healthy longevity—diet, activity, and attitude—gathered from cultures around the world, to create a book for "all" ages. (Consumer Health)

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In each of his widely acclaimed, best-selling books, Dr. Andrew Weil has been an authoritative and companionable guide through a uniquely effective combination of traditional and nontraditional approaches to health and healthy living. Now he gives us a book about aging that is unlike any other. Drawing on the new science of biogerontology (the biology of aging) as well as on the secrets of healthy longevity — diet, activity and attitude — Dr. Weil explains that there are a myriad of things we can do to keep our bodies and minds in good working order through all phases of life. Hugely informative, practical, and uplifting, "Healthy Aging" is infused with the engaging candor and common sense that have made Dr. Weil our most trusted source on healthy living. With detailed information on:

Learning to eat right: Following the anti-inflammatory diet, Dr. Weil's guide to the nutritional components of a healthy lifestyle
Separating myth from fact about the would-be elixirs of life extension — herbs, hormones, and anti-aging "medicines"
Learning exercise, breathing and stress-management techniques to benefit your mind and body
Understanding the science behind the aging process
Keeping record of your life lessons to share with loved ones

About the Author

Andrew Weil, one of America's best known advocates of alternative medicine and holistic healing, attended Harvard Medical School. He has worked for the National Institute of Mental Health and the Harvard Botanical Museum. He is the founder of the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center and Associate Director of the Division of Social Perspectives in Medicine, University of Arizona. Weil's books include Spontaneous Healing and Natural Health and Eight Weeks to Optimum Health.