Summary:
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A flexible guide that will add ten happy and healthy years to your life
This book is designed as a ten-step guide that will add ten (healthy, happy) years to your life. It offers sound advice on health and fitness issues, and will cover diet and relaxation, in addition to such emotional issues as happiness, love and spirituality.
It is all based, not on guru driven theories of bizarre diets or exercise routines, but on common sense and positive thinking, twinned with information that is both practical and supported widely by the scientific and medical communities. The tone is positive and encouraging throughout; there are also plenty of opportunities for you to interact with the book through features such as quizzes, self-test boxes and exercises.
Help Yourself to Live Longer includes:
Chapter 1: Why we age
The gene theory of ageing
The free radical theory of ageing
Making the most of this book
Chapter 2: Food
How some foods fight ageing
An a-z of longevity wonderfoods
Crash diets
Restrict calories, live longer
The live-longer meal planner
Chapter 3: Supplements
The great supplement debate
Combining vitamin and mineral supplements
Chapter 4: Exercise
Up to ten more years
How exercise makes you feel more happier
How fit are you?
Exercising for fitness
Do what you enjoy
Exercising for strength
Exercising for flexibility
Devising a weekly program for fitness, strength and flexibility
Chapter 5: Your brain
How your brain works
Dementia
Physical activity
Avoiding stress
Avoiding neurotoxicants
Avoiding head injury
Mental activity
Increasing your brain power
Chapter 6: Relaxation
The slow movement
Good and bad stress
Downsizing
Relaxation techniques
Meditation
Give yourself some cognitive self-therapy
Sleep
Muscular relaxation
Laughter - the stress breaker
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Be grateful
Getting rid of negative thoughts
How negative emotions can poison you
Applying the lessons to your past
Enough money for a happy future?
Chapter 8: Prudence
Avoiding cancer
Smoking - please stop
Viruses
Alcohol
Drugs
Sunshine
Driving
Avoid head injury
Sex
Is it worth having medical check-ups
Body scans
Chapter 9: Love
That special someone
Love is the food of health
More love, less stress
Psychoneurosexuality
Oxytocin
Improving your relatio
- A non-guru guide that will add ten happy and healthy years to your life
- Designed for readers of all ages, backgrounds and abilities - you can start making the changes you want right now!
- All the advice is based on scientific and medical research, accompanied by a healthy dose of wisdom and common sense
- Not just about your health and fitness, this book also covers relationships, love and relaxation
- Lots of interactive exercises and sample tips
About the Author(s):
Paul Jenner is a journalist and author specialising in self-help and lifestyle. He has written more than 30 books including Get Intimate With Tantric Sex, Amazing Sex The Tantric Way, Have Great Sex, How To Be Happier, Transform Your Life With NLP, Help Yourself To Live Longer and Be More Confident. His books have been translated into French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Romanian, Hebrew and Thai. He lives in Spain with his partner, three ponies, two dogs and two sheep.
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