The Longevity Prescription

The 8 Proven Keys to a Long, Healthy Life

Robert N. Butler

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Avery Publishing Group Inc.,U.S.
05 July 2011

Coping with old age

The internationally revered, Pulitzer Prize-winning father of geriatric medicine offers a revitalizing plan for living a longer and better life.

The Longevity Prescription outlines eight essential facets of longevity- exercise, nutrition, mental vitality, sleep, relaxation, love and intimacy, community connections, and medical care. Based on proven discoveries, the strategies in each of these areas stretch the proceeds of the ""three-decade dividend,"" while delaying or eliminating chronic illness. With step-by-step guidance for formulating an action plan and adopting new habits and strategies, The Longevity Prescription also guides readers through special challenges, such as diabetes and cancer.

A baby boomer turns sixty every 7.6 seconds, but many of America's graying millions approach the later years of life with fear and trepidation. Emphasizing clear-cut research findings that balance physical health with emotional well-being, Butler and his colleagues offer a definitive path to whole-life happiness.

By: Robert N. Butler
Imprint: Avery Publishing Group Inc.,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 208mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 261g
ISBN: 9781583334300
ISBN 10: 1583334300
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 05 July 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Robert N. Butler, M.D., is the president and CEO of the International Longevity Center - USA and a professor at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. The author of the Pultizer Prize-winning Why Survive? Being Old in America and chair of the Council on Aging of the World Economic Forum (Davos), he is a frequent adviser to international agencies, including the World Health Organization, and served as medical editor-in-chief of Geriatrics for more than a decade. He lives in New York City.

Reviews for The Longevity Prescription: The 8 Proven Keys to a Long, Healthy Life

""In this wonderful book, Dr. Robert Butler, one of the world's great figures in the study of aging...offers a rare distillation of the principles for a long and healthy life."" -Stanley Prusiner, M.D., Nobel laureate in medicine, or physiology, University of California, San Francisco"" ""Dr. Butler has given us a practical and important strategy for successful aging."" -Jane Fonda ""Written by the world's foremost expert in the field, Dr. Butler's how-to guide can lead to your own more enjoyable and productive senior years."" -Senator John Glenn ""In The Longevity Prescription, Dr. Robert Butler distills an enormous literature on aging into eight principles for long life, masterfully providing readers with the real secrets to long and healthy lives."" -Laura L. Carstensen, Ph.D., director of Stanford Center on Longevity ""This wonderful book will inspire, educate and help millions of baby boomers to understand how we can take simple actions that will greatly improve our chances not only to live longer, but more important, to make old age the best time of our lives."" -James P. Firman, Ed.D., president and CEO of National Council of Aging ""Dr. Butler, the preeminent authority on aging and longevity, does a wonderful job of presenting a wealth of current, science-based knowledge on what we can all do to increase our chances of enjoying long, healthy, active and happy lives. He writes beautifully, as befits a Pulitzer Prize winner, and is enormously persuasive."" -Humphrey Taylor, chair of Harris Interactive