Living a Century or More: A Scientifically Fact-Based Journey to Longevity

by MD William Cortvriendt

Overview

Living a Century or More: A Scientifically Fact-Based Journey to Longevity is widely praised by the press, medical professionals and the general public. Cortvriendt's groundbreaking, easy-to-read health guide will provide you with the vital information you need to gain mastery over how long and how well you spend your coming years. Through fact-based and quantifiable medical evidence drawn from today's most renowned medical journals, you can learn to embrace healthy behaviors today that will radically change your tomorrow.

Covering every influential aspect of your lifestyle, from diet to physical activity to managing stress, Living a Century or More will guide you through the everyday habits that impact your health at the fundamental level. Day one starts today...are you ready to turn back the clock?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781492870081
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	02/07/2014
Pages:	380
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.78(d)

About the Author

William Cortvriendt has held positions as medical director of two pharmaceutical companies, as vice president of a medical device company, and has worked as a consultant for McKinsey & Company serving governments and companies. He draws from his extensive experience in research for his new book, Living a Century or More: A Scientifically Fact-Based Journey to Longevity.

Editorial Reviews

2014-04-17
Clean living improves the odds for a long life, according to this fascinating primer on the medical realities of aging.Cortvriendt, a physician, focuses on the nutritional and lifestyle factors that affect our susceptibility to cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and cancer. Front and center is his detailed, wonderfully lucid discussion of food, which takes readers from the basic chemistries of carbohydrates, fats and proteins and their metabolism in the body through the subtle and often strange complexities of dieting. (Excess carbohydrates are bad, but an Atkins-style ban will do much more harm than good, he writes.) He provides a skeptical take on vitamin and antioxidant supplements; vitamins A and E, he writes, have been found to actually increase cancer risks at high doses. He balances this with the seemingly miraculous assertion that eating dark chocolate protects against cancer, diabetes and other ailments; tobacco is anathema, alcohol tolerable and coffee a downright boon, he says. However, Cortvriendt advises that what we do is as important as what we ingest and that there's no end to the benefits of exercise, which wards off hypertension, dementia and other ills. Basking in sunlight may perk you up, the author says, but it can also give you cancer or make you look old. The book also advises that seething Type A personalities should learn to relax and meditate. There are facts, figures and charts galore, but the author presents the information in simple, straightforward prose that laypeople will understand, while paying due attention to complexities; for example, he explains the pitfalls of deriving reliable conclusions from a muddle of medical statistics and offers shrewd, evenhanded assessments of the conflicting evidence surrounding medical controversies. The result is an absorbing, highly readable exposition of the science of health that yields a wealth of common-sense advice.An engaging self-help book that offers a clear road map for extending one's life span.

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