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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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

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hing more universal than the desire to slow down the aging process, to live a long, full life with health, energy, and independence. The Okinawa Program presents the first evidence-based program to make this possible. Authored by a team of preeminent medical and scientific experts, this breakthrough book documents the diet, exercise, and lifestyle practices of the world's healthiest, longest-lived people and reveals how readers can apply these practices to their own lives.

In Okinawa, the occurrence of heart disease is only one fifth that of American levels. The rate of breast, ovarian, and prostate cancers is less than a quarter of American levels. And the number of centenarians per hundred thousand is six times that of the United States. Most important, Okinawans have the world's longest disability-free life expectancy.

Concluding a long-term, collaborative scientific study, The Okinawa Program clearly and expertly explains the reasons for this rem

Edition details

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