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Healthy at 100: The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World's Healthiest and Longest-Lived Peoples |  | Author: John Robbins
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Pages: 384
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.2 x 1
ISBN: 0345490118
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.2
EAN: 9780345490117
ASIN: 0345490118
Publication Date: August 28, 2007
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Product Description
Why do some people age in failing health and sadness, while others grow old with vitality and joy?
In this revolutionary book, bestselling author John Robbins presents us with a bold new paradigm of aging, showing us how we can increase not only our lifespan but also our health span. Through the example of four very different cultures that have the distinction of producing some of the world’s healthiest, oldest people, Robbins reveals the secrets for living an extended and fulfilling life in which our later years become a period of wisdom, vitality, and happiness. From Abkhasia in the Caucasus south of Russia, where age is beauty, and Vilcabamba in the Andes of South America, where laughter is the greatest medicine, to Hunza in Central Asia, where dance is ageless, and finally the southern Japanese islands of Okinawa, the modern Shangri-la, where people regularly live beyond a century, Robbins examines how the unique lifestyles of these peoples can influence and improve our own.
Bringing the traditions of these ancient and vibrantly healthy cultures together with the latest breakthroughs in medical science, Robbins reveals that, remarkably, they both point in the same direction. The result is an inspirational synthesis of years of research into healthy aging in which Robbins has isolated the characteristics that will enable us to live long and–most important–joyous lives. With an emphasis on simple, wholesome, but satisfying fare, and the addition of a manageable daily exercise routine, many people can experience great improvement in the quality of their lives now and for many years to come. But perhaps more surprising is Robbins’ discovery that it is not diet and exercise alone that helps people to live well past one hundred. The quality of personal relationships is enormously important. With startling medical evidence about the effects of our interactions with others, Robbins asserts that loneliness has more impact on lifespan than such known vices as smoking. There is clearly a strong beneficial power to love and connection.
“We all have the tools to live longer lives, and to remain active, productive, and resourceful until the very end,” Robbins writes. Healthy at 100 strives to improve both the quality and the quantity of our remaining years–no matter how old or how healthy we might currently be–and to reverse the social stigma on aging. After reading this book, we will never think about age–or life–in the same way again.
“John Robbins has inspired millions of people with his eloquent, clear, compassionate, and insightful guidance on the path to health and fulfillment. Healthy at 100 may be his finest work to date. If you are interested in extending your health span as well as your life span, read this book! Healthy at 100 is a masterpiece.”
–Dean Ornish, M.D., president and director of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute, author of Dr. Dean Ornish’s Program for Reversing Heart Disease
“This is a remarkably open and heartfelt book full of wisdom and love by an extraordinary man who has been teaching us how to live more healthy and compassionate lives for over twenty years now. John Robbins has created a new vision of aging for American society.”
–John Mackey, CEO, Whole Foods
“John Robbins is one of the most important voices in America today. He cuts through nonsense like no one else does. He gives hope like no one else does. His words are lifelines for both the body and soul. This book can literally save our lives.”
–Marianne Williamson, author of A Return to Love and A Woman’s Worth
“Healthy at 100 is a marvelous blend of wisdom, hope, courage, and common sense. John Robbins gives us caring, science, and inspiration–a beautiful diet for the heart.”
–Jack Kornfield, co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock, author of A Path with Heart
“As the low-carb diet craze is gone, John Robbins proposes a far healthier approach that leads not just to a healthy weight but also to a joyful and fulfilled life. Healthy at 100 is packed with informed and heartfelt wisdom.”
–Jorge Cruise, author of The 3-Hour Diet, creator of JorgeCruise.com
“John Robbins inspires me on every page. His unique experiences and viewpoints were the reasons I wanted him to be in my film Super Size Me. This book only reinforces my faith in him as a thought-provoking humanitarian.”
–Morgan Spurlock, producer and director of Super Size Me
From the Hardcover edition.
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 Everyone should read this book! November 5, 2009
Sherry A. Derdak
This book takes a while to get through, but is well-worth everyone you care about to get a copy. I bought 2 for Anniversary gifts for relatives. This is the best advice you can get to live a long and healthy life!
 Worth reading, but.... September 18, 2009
Trent
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book was worth reading and had a lot of good advice. However, there were a lot of parts that were simply too wordy, and it felt like the author simply wanted to put more ink on paper. I highly appreciated all of the information backed up by studies mentioned by the author. What I could have done without is a lot of objective interpretation by the author, which I would estimate off the top of my head to be 35-40% of the text. The books 320 or so pages could have been reduced to about 200 pages. However, I still recommend the book, because you will certainly be better off for reading it, although maybe a Readers Digest condensed version would be ideal.
 Poorly edited, opinionated and simplistic September 13, 2009
Leseratte (Denver, CO)
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
Although this book was printed by Random House, it falls short of the quality I have come to expect from this publisher. Had the Editor done a better job at removing the author's ego from the fascinating insights Robbins manages to provide here and there, the book could easily have scored 5/5. Perhaps the writer's personality overwhelmed the editor? Never have I read a book about nutrition that is filled with such subjectivity and oftentimes simplistic statements. I kept reading, as unexpectedly Robbins would offer up another scientific gem. Thorough editing would have greatly enhanced the quality of the advice in this book. Also, the Index fails to refer to some useful (and sometimes amusing) end-of-chapter "Steps You Can Take". The editor also failed to refer to the invaluable 'Good Science on how to prevent Alzheimer's' short list on p. 201 in the Index. The word 'prevent' is rather categorical and not scientifically proven, instead the words 'try to reduce' should have been chosen. Only the reader who has managed to read the first eleven chapters will stumble upon it. The studies Robbins chooses to quote and the advice he is allowed to dole out about the dangers of eating farm-raised and wild fish (mercury poisoning) is alarmist and unhelpful. Note - Robbins is a vegan. I was unable to find some of the references from the bibliography and wonder how accurate these are? Also did Robbins or Random House obtain all the necessary permissions to reprint since Robbins most liberally reprints from other authors? He relies to a large extent on a limited list of books and most liberally refers to these. Has he even visited the Abkhasians, Vilcabamba, Hunza or Okinawans or is he relying on other people's accounts? If he has indeed visited these people, why does he not mention this? If the sentence "a diet consisting of meat, diary products etc. rather than whole grains, vegetables..... will lead to cardiovascular diseases, heart failure, cancer" (insert any 'Western' disease nobody wants to get) had been removed from the book, the book would likely have been 20 pages shorter. What are John Robbins' medical or scientific credentials? What is his educational background in the areas of nutrition, biology, biochemistry? He shares that his father and uncle made a fortune with their ice cream company Baskin-Robbins, and that he decided to remove himself from the family business. But how is this vegan an expert on why certain cultures have long healthy lives? For a comprehensive, unbiased, objective, very readable book of the dietary practices of the Okinawa, Symi, Campodimele, Hunza, and Bama, read "50 Secrets of the World's Longest Living People' by international nutritionist Sally Beare.
Great Service August 18, 2009
LizTucker (Chicago, IL)
The book came fast and in excellent condition. I'll buy from this seller again and again!
More good stuff from John Robbins July 7, 2009
Lydel Bertasz (TX, USA)
John Robbins examines longevity in four different parts of the world.
There is more to it than just diet and exercise. Lots more. We can
learn so much from this book. Ultimately, there is a sadness, too, as
we see what is happening today to those places where the elder population
used to dance into their nineties and beyond. This is a fascinating read !
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