PublishedPalgrave, August 2011 |
ISBN9780230112056 |
FormatSoftcover, 256 pages |
Dimensions23.4cm × 15.5cm × 1.7cm |
This groundbreaking book is full of take-away prescriptive advice which the world's millions of baby boomers will value. Top gerontologist and Stanford medical school professor Dr. Walter Bortz and co-author Randall Stickrod draw on new science and a thirty-year longitudinal study of centenarians to show that genetics play a smaller role in aging than previously thought, and senility, dementia, and other diseases of the elderly, are largely preventable and not an inevitable consequence of aging.
They also show that engagement, through sexual relationships, social interation, and professional activity, is a key factor in long, healthy lives, and that physical fitness can revocer at least 30 years of aging.
