Jonny Bowden, nutritionist and author of The Most Effective Ways to Live Longer, has compiled an easy-to-understand manual on how to live a long life while also making that life more fulfilling with improved strength and health. While not strictly a cookbook, some delicious and healthy recipes are included.
How to Fight Aging: Free Radicals, Inflammation, Glycation, Stress & Hormones
The top four aging factors are tackled one at a time in the first chapter of Live Longer.
- Free Radicals: dangerous molecules that attack cells - fight with healthy foods & supplements
- Inflammation: a body's reaction to injury which causes degenerative disease - fight with supplements & certain foods.
- Glycation: sugar molecules transformed into protein or fat molecules inhibiting normal bodily functions - fight with carnosine.
- Stress: factors that cause mental tension or bodily harm, producing damaging hormonal reactions - fight with meditation, breathing, rest, exercise and the elimination of toxic relationships.
Keeping a Fit Body, Healthy Heart, Brain, Bones, Joints & Immune System
Fitness is important for more than just the parts that show. Increase the odds of a long and healthy life with food, supplements, detoxification, exercise, sleep, stress reduction and emotional intelligence. Tips and practical exercises for keeping a fit brain are both fun and useful.
Secrets of Emotional Intelligence
Mr. Bowden maintains that a healthy emotional intelligence, including compassion for others, is crucial for aging well and living long. In this topic, he includes relationships, community and contribution. While these emotional aspects are often overlooked in discussions of health, the stories and facts presented in this chapter offer some of the most compelling reasons to aspire to all kinds of health. Emotional intelligence brings with it immediate rewards as well as relief from life's stressors. All the healthy eating and exercising in the world won't make a person happy without some effort made in emotional growth.
Summary
Live Longer presents all the human "shoulds" in a way that makes them not only comprehensible, but desirable. Few people improve their health simply because they should, but understanding how health changes bring about happier lives, and finding ways to effect change that is truly manageable are the very real benefits offered in this book. Loads of color photos, real-life stories, a sample workbook and journal are nice additions to the recipes and invaluable advice.
Title: The Most Effective Ways to Live Longer
Author: Jonny Bowden
Publisher: Fair Winds Press, 286 pages, 2010, $24.99
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