The Okinawa Program: How the World's Longest-Lived People Achieve Everlasting Health-And How You Can Too - Hardcover

Willcox, Bradley J.; Willcox, Craig; Suzuki, Makoto, M.D.; Willcox, D. Craig

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0609607472 ISBN 13: 9780609607473

Publisher: Crown Pub, 2001

Synopsis

Based on a revolutionary generation-long study of the world's longest-living people, this guide to healthy living is designed to lower the risk of heart disease, breast cancer, osteoporosis, and other common ailments. 75,000 first printing.

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Review:

The Okinawa Program is a very significant contribution to the science of longevity. Read this book carefully and follow the recommendations and you will add years to your life and life to your years. Deepak Chopra, M.D., author of Ageless Body, Timeless Mind
As you will learn in this scientifically factual and highly readable book, the general principles of living the Okinawa way . . . are accessible to everyone and quite consistent with the latest medical research on healthy lifestyles and healthy aging. From the foreword by Andrew Weil, M.D., author of Spontaneous Healing and 8 Weeks to Optimum Health"

"The Okinawa Program is a very significant contribution to the science of longevity. Read this book carefully and follow the recommendations and you will add years to your life and life to your years." --Deepak Chopra, M.D., author of Ageless Body, Timeless Mind

"As you will learn in this scientifically factual and highly readable book, the general principles of living the Okinawa way . . . are accessible to everyone and quite consistent with the latest medical research on healthy lifestyles and healthy aging." --From the foreword by Andrew Weil, M.D., author of Spontaneous Healing and 8 Weeks to Optimum Health

About the Author:

Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., M.Sc., trained in internal medicine at the Mayo Clinic and is a geriatrics fellow in the Division on Aging, Harvard Medical School. He is also a resident scholar at the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, Japan, and co-investigator of the Okinawa Centenarian Study.

D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., is a medical anthropologist and gerontologist. He is Assistant Professor at Okinawa Prefectural University -- College of
Nursing and co-investigator of the Okinawa Centenarian Study. The Willcoxes are identical twins.

Makoto Suzuki, M.D., Ph.D., is a cardiologist and geriatrician. He is Professor Emeritus of Community Medicine at the University of the Ryukyus and Professor and Chair, Department of Gerontology, Okinawa International University. He is principal investigator of the Okin

About this edition

• Publisher: Crown Pub
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0609607472
• ISBN 13: 9780609607473
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 484