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Book Reviews on Longevity and Healthy Aging

Every week more books on longevity and healthy aging are appearing on store shelves. Some of these books contain useful information and advice, others do not. This list of top books on longevity and healthy aging will help you find what you need to know.
Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease by Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr - Book Review
Dr. Esselstyn presents a diet that he claims can not only prevent, but also reverse heart disease. This book covers a 20-year study of the diet in 23 people. It gives recipes and tips for staying on his heart disease reversing diet.
Book Review: 50 Ways to Leave Your 40s, by Sheila Key and Peggy Spencer
50 Ways to Leave Your 40s is a book that gives idea after idea of ways to shake up you 50s and beyond. Filled with quick stories, ideas and tips, this book is for anyone looking to add some spice and joy to their next 50 years.
Mike Roizen Interview - RealAge and You: Staying Young
I had the pleasure of interview Mike Roizen, MD, co-author of You: Staying Young and author of the RealAge books. Dr. Roizen talked with me about meditation, his next book, and why people fail at creating healthy habits.
You - Staying Young by Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz
You - Staying Young by Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz is a great book. This book tackles some of the complex concepts around aging without watering them down, but still somehow making them fun. Everything from sleep to supplements is covered in what may be the best book on aging out there.
Health Matters by Taylor Grant
Health Matters by Taylor Grant is a book committed to helping people find the best health care. The book covers topics that include finding a great doctor, overcome fears and emotions around health, planning for your health, making changes to improve your health, managing your family's health (and much more). This book is great for anyone looking to get the most out of our medical system.
Live a Longer Life by Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott's Live a Longer Life is written with the typical Australian in mind. It covers the field of anti-ageing medicine, healthy ageing and longevity more comprehensively than most books on the subject. Topics include: preventing illnesses, food and ageing, exercise, sex, anti-ageing products and hype, mind-body and ageing and brain fitness.
Books on Longevity and Healthy Aging
Every week more books on longevity and healthy aging are appearing on store shelves. Some of these books contain useful information and advice, others do not. This list of top books on longevity and healthy aging will help you find what you need to know.
Aging with Grace: The Nun Study
"Aging With Grace" reviews a study that began in 1986 and continues today. The author, epidemiologist David Snowden, follows the lives of 678 nuns while surveying them on health-related behaviors and practices.
The RealAge Makeover
The RealAge Makeover lacks an easy-to-follow program and focuses on supplements a great deal. There is good information in this RealAge book, but you need to weed through marketing hype to find it.
Secrets of Longevity
Secrets of Longevity combines Western knowledge with Eastern wisdom to give the reader hundreds of suggestions of things to do in order to live a longer and happier life. Dr. Maoshing Ni presents these tips in a quick, easy-to-read format.
Gary Null’s Power Aging
Gary Null has been promoting healthy lifestyle and nutrition for decades. This new book, [i]Power Aging[/i], presents a healthy aging program and discusses some of the factors that contribute to aging.
Healthy at 100
Healthy at 100 looks to traditional cultures with a history of long-lived people to better understand longevity and healthy aging. John Robbins reviews the existing information about these cultures and presents it in an easy-to-read format.
The Longevity Diet
The Longevity Diet uses calorie restriction to increase life expectancy. While the long-term effects of this diet are unknown, calorie restriction is the only proven way to extend life in animals. The effects in humans are still controversial.
Count Down Your Age
Count Down Your Age presents a comprehensive plan for healthy aging. By combining advice about nutrition and exercise with social and mental health tips, Count Down Your Age succeeds at giving the reader a wide range of information, and suggestions.
The Longevity Bible
The Longevity Bible breaks healthy aging into 8 essential strategies. These strategies include the expected topics of nutrition and exercise, as well as more unusual topics such as having a positive attitude and staying mentally fit. The Longevity Bible is a good source of information for a balanced approach to aging.
Healthy Aging by Andrew Weil
In his earlier books, Dr. Weil set out to change how we think about healing and medicine. In Healthy Aging, he wants to change how we think about aging and longevity. Instead of focusing on ways to increase life expectancy, Dr. Weil chooses to focus on increasing the number of healthy years by preventing chronic illness and maintaining well-being.
The China Study
The China Study is one of the largest and most comprehensive studies of nutrition and health ever conducted. In this book, T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., the author and lead researcher, reviews the findings of the China Study and other research and concludes that diet can prevent and reverse chronic illness.

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