RealAge: Are You as Young as You Can Be? | Michael F. Roizen

RealAge: Are You as Young as You Can Be? | Michael F. Roizen | STOP "STALLED" THINKING ABOUT HAVING A HEALTHY LONG LIFE

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	RealAge: Are You as Young as You Can Be? Michael F. Roizen Collins Living, 2001 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 36 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

STOP THINKING TRADITIONALLY ABOUT AGE!

I had fun taking the test, more fun finding out that I am six years younger than my chronological age, and even more fun telling people that! However, I already know that having a healthy life style, exercising, eating well, relieving stress and a great marriage are all things that keep me feeling and looking younger. I found the rest of the book a little disappointing, because each chapter repeats, although in much more detail, the items on the test. This is a good book for someone who wants a general overview of things to do to be healthy and problems that an unhealthy life style can cause. Practicing what Dr. Roizen suggests takes time, you may need more detail and want to review what you should do with your own advisors. I also suggest you read another new book that will help you understand why it is difficult for some people to change their life habits, called THE 2,000 PERCENT SOLUTION, by Mitchell, Coles and Metz. The first half of the book talks about our bad habits or "stalls", like THE TRADITION STALL (I grew up on lasagna or chicken soup and matzoh balls, or bread and butter - and I like those foods) or The Misconception Stall (I don't have time to exercise or meditate, when you will find that if you do, you begin to do things so much better, you have created the time). The second half shares eight steps to make progress at 20 times the usual rate. If you read REAL AGE and THE 2,000 PERCENT SOLUTION together, you will develop ideas to get "younger and better" faster!

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STOP "STALLED" THINKING ABOUT HAVING A HEALTHY LONG LIFE

An untapped frontier of medicine is how to have a longer period of good health before we die. Many people actually fear long life, because that may extend pain and disability. Yet we all know disabled people who beam with joy in every breath they take. REAL AGE is a good look at factors that affect longeivity, and allows you to understand how your habits and circumstances are likely to affect your life span. In doing this, Dr. Roizen helps you overcome your Misconceptions about what is and is not healthy as well as overcome Communication stalls about the latest medical research that you may not know about. Compiling this work also helps you overcome your Procrastination stall by encouraging you to take action now. The book is also good for the Disbelief stall (if we take time to live a healthier life, we will shortchange something else and get even more stress -- wrong!). The book also attacks the Ugly Duckling stall: causing us to look hard at that which we usually ignore -- our most unheatlhy habits. One thing about the book is unclear to me, however, the research seems tied to mortality . . . yet Dr. Roizen claims that we will extend the period of healthy life this way. My impression of the scientific research is that it normally measures the frequency of disease and mortality. I am a little skeptical that all of these things will increase my period of "healthy life" rather than my longeivity. The statistician in me also suspects that many of the variables are auto-correlated (they are measuring the same phenomena) so that we are double counting. He also seems to understate the benefits of certain factors. For example, if all of your ancestors lived to be over 100 that would seem to add much more to your life expectancy than would the amount that his charts suggest. Further, if these ancestors were hale and hearty to the end versus were in nursing homes for 40 years would also seem pertinent to "youthful long life". Like any form of new thinking, this book raises good questions, points the way to some better answers, and suggests the need for different research and analysis to get even better answers in the future. I found his understanding of nutrition to be a little light, for example. Take what you read here without a grain of salt (most agree we get too much) and you will be all right. Take this book too literally and you will run the risk of misleading yourself. If you feel better, or key health measures improve (such as your blood pressure) after tryng the ideas in the book, go with it. You are probably on the right track. A way to continue this research would be to increase the number of measures that physicians keep about the quality of life that patients experience who do these things that are recommended. Locate the best practices for extending quality of life (both finding out WHAT to do and HOW to encourage people to do these things). Combine the best practices in new ways to get the best future result. Imagine what the ideal best practices are and approach them (such as reinforcing these good habits with young people, something not discussed in the book), getting the right motivations and support involved, and repeating the process. Then you'll make great strides! I hope Dr. Roizen continues his research along these lines that I have just outlined. In the meantime, please do read, think about, and apply the lessons here that make sense to you, make you feel better, and show demonstrable impact on the quality of and length of your life. Good luck and good health to you all!

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HERE'S TO THE GOOD LIFE!

I really enjoyed reading this book because it told me that my habits are making me younger than my years. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that some habits that many consider not to be helpful can be good for you, such as having a couple of glasses of wine a day (for men, one for women). Like LOVE AND SURVIVAL, REAL AGE also points out the benefits of having great relationships (a wonderful marriage, lots of friends you see often, and even having a dog). What a nice thing it is to consider life as Dr. Roizen imagines it. I saw the big problem as getting the time to do all of these wonderful things in my very busy life. You will need the lessons of THE 2,000 PERCENT SOLUTION (which will teach you how to get much more done in less time and with less stress) in order to fully benefit from REAL AGE. Without those lessons from THE 2,000 PERCENT SOLUTION, I would have a much shorter, less healthy life because I would never get around to doing all the things that are good for me.

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Excellent book

I am trying to locate the Real Age Test as I did last week without succes

A must-read health book.

With the unfolding development of the internet and its related technologies (still quite crude really), mankind is about to make another giant leap forward thereby making life infinitely more interesting and exciting. So I assume people will somehow like to prolong their stay here on earth. From a broad perspective, this book explains the dynamics of what accelerates or decelerates our aging process. Good health to all!!!

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