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Younger Next Year: A Guide to Living Like 50 Until You're 80 and Beyond (Hardcover)
by Chris Crowley, Henry S. Lodge, M.D.
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Author: Chris Crowley, Henry S. Lodge, M.D.
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Pub. in: December, 2004
ISBN: 0761134239
Pages: 320
Measurements: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA00404
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One of the Top 200 book titles on Amazon.com (ranking # 156 as of October, 2006) |
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This book is coauthored by Dr. Henry Lodge, a board certified internist who regularly appears on the "Best Doctors in New York/America Surveys.” Dr. Lodge writes from the perspective of our evolutionary biology, evolutionary sociology and evolutionary psychology as he explains why we need to exercise, stay connected to community and do something meaningful with our lives. The details of the evolutionary biology is the fresh meat served in this book and it is compellingly tied to those things we hear over and over again so that they finally make sense and motivate you. As a result, Younger Next Year is a blend of scientific information and what really amounts to common sense.
If a spoonful of sugar can make the medicine go down, then the sugar is Chris Crowley, the coauthor and retired litigator. He implements Dr. Lodge's beliefs into his life and tells us about it. It reads like a wonderful memoir, complete with "laugh out loud" while you are reading it humor. But while you are busy laughing, Chris Crowley, with the expertise of a great salesman, is persuading and motivating you to join him in taking charge of your body and life so you can live "like 50 until you're 80 and beyond."
Written in conversational style, readers already modestly familiar with physical fitness and eating habits may not find anything new in the first two thirds of the book, except the cliché that you should exercise and eat the right food. The surprise, however, comes in the last third of the book which is devoted to emotional lifestyle issues - relationships, commitment to a purpose, and attitude. Crowley and Lodge correctly ascribe being younger next year not only to the usual, well written prescription of exercise and diet, but also, and importantly to one's emotional (and they hint at spiritual) state.
Target readers:
All people over the age of forty.
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Chris Crowley, now in his early 70s, likes to ski, sail, windsurf, play tennis, cook, write these books, and share his passion for these ideas with as many people as possible. He is a former litigator (Davis Polk & Wardwell) who retired in 1990.
Henry S. Lodge, M.D., ranked as one of the best doctors in America in his specialty of internal medicine, is a member of the teaching faculty at Columbia Medical School. He lives in New York City.
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From the Publisher:
Turn back your biological clock. A breakthrough book for men - as much fun to read as it is persuasive - Younger Next Year draws on the very latest science of aging to show how men 50 or older can become functionally younger every year for the next five to ten years, and continue to live like fifty-year-olds until well into their eighties. To enjoy life and be stronger, healthier, and more alert. To stave off 70% of the normal decay associated with aging (weakness, sore joints, apathy), and to eliminate over 50% of all illness and potential injuries. This is the real thing, a program that will work for anyone who decides to apply himself to "Harry's Rules."
Harry is Henry S. Lodge, M.D., a specialist in internal medicine and preventive healthcare. Chris Crowley is Harry's 70-year-old patient who's stronger today (and skiing better) than when he was 40. Together, in alternating chapters that are lively, sometimes outspoken, and always utterly convincing, they spell out Harry's Rules and the science behind them. The rules are deceptively simple: Exercise Six Days a Week. Eat What You Know You Should. Connect to Other People and Commit to Feeling Passionate About Something. The science, simplified and demystified, ranges from the molecular biology of growth and decay to how our bodies and minds evolved (and why they fare so poorly in our sedentary, all-feast no-famine culture). The result is nothing less than a paradigm shift in our view of aging.
Welcome to the next third of your life - train for it, and you'll have a ball.
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The New York Times (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-04 00:00>
One long, exuberant New Year's resolution. |
Newsweek (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-04 00:00>
Younger Next Year is a wisecracking but scientifically serious guide to health... |
Kirkus Reports (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-04 00:00>
One of our highest recommendations so far on growing old gracefully… Dr. Lodge, a prominent M.D., focuses on developments in cellular and evolutionary biology. Crowley, his guinea pig, is a firm believer in Dr. Lodge's science and very good at convincing the reader that, if you're a fifty-year-old man, you'd be an idiot not to start following the rules as soon as possible… Should be read avidly by anyone growing older as well as forward-thinking youngsters. |
Publishers Weekly (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-04 00:00>
Believing they have a unique approach for improving men's lives, Crowley, a former litigator, and Lodge, a board-certified internist, collaborated to write this "evolutionary" health program. The authors base their plan on the idea that instead of looking forward to decades of pain as the body slowly deteriorates, it's possible to live as if you were 50, maybe even younger, for the rest of your life. Yet with the exception of "Harry's First Rule" - exercise at least six days a week - there isn't much that's new or groundbreaking in their agenda. Most recommendations fall under the "common sense" umbrella, though these suggestions may be news to many men, who aren't as steeped in the world of health and fitness as most women are (they may find the chapters dealing with nutrition and biology particularly informative). The authors' method of proffering their philosophy is rather trite, however, and their cavalier demeanor belies the significance of what they have to say. More than one-third of the book is devoted to how and why they came up with this program based on their own lives, with special attention to 70-year-old Crowley's impressive abilities (he says he can ski better now than he could 20 years ago). All told, this manual for healthy living offers sound, if unoriginal, advice with some hackneyed padding. |
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