The Roadmap to 100: The Breakthrough Science of Living a Long and Healthy Life

Bortz II MD, Walter M.; Stickrod, Randall

ISBN 10: 0230112056 / ISBN 13: 9780230112056

Published by St. Martin's Griffin, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Roadmap to 100: The Breakthrough Science of Living a Long and Healthy Life
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0230112056
• ISBN 13: 9780230112056
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 10 ounces

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Synopsis

With a baby boomer turning sixty every ten seconds, we are rapidly becoming an aging society. But cutting edge research on the connection between age and disease shows us that many of the preconceptions we had about how to grow old need a second look. This groundbreaking book is full of take-away prescriptive advice which the nearly seventy-five million boomers in this nation will value. Top gerontologist and Stanford medical school professor Dr. Walter Bortz and co-author Randall Stickrod draw on new science and a thirty-year longitudinal study of centenarians to show that: * Genetics plays a smaller role in aging than previouslythought * Senility, dementia, and other diseases of the elderly,are largely preventable and not an inevitable consequence of aging * Engagement, through sexual relationships, social interaction, and professional activity, is a key factor inlong, healthy lives * Physical fitness can recover at least 30 years of aging Filled with in-depth insight and practical advice, The Roadmap to 100 gives you the power to control your own destiny and live well beyond 100.

About the Author

Walter Bortz, MD is clinical associate professor of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. Bortz isalsoformer past cochairman of the American Medical Association's Task Force on Aging, former president of The American Geriatric Society and is currently a senior advisor to Healthy Silicon Valley. Randall Stickrod is along-time science and technology publisher and writer, and former executive publisher of Wired.