Healthy at 100: How you can--at any age-- dramatically increase your life span and your health span
Dec 2008 · Ballantine Books
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The bestselling author of Diet for a New America shares the scientifically proven secrets of the world’s healthiest and longest-lived people and shows how understanding their unique lifestyles can influence and improve our own longevity.
“Healthy at 100 is a masterpiece.”—Dean Ornish, M.D.
“This is a remarkably open and heartfelt book full of wisdom and love. John Robbins has created a new vision of aging for American society”—John Mackey, CEO, Whole Foods
In this revolutionary book, bestselling author John Robbins reveals the secrets for living an extended and fulfilling life. He explores the example of four very different cultures that have the distinction of producing some of the world’s healthiest, oldest people: the Abkhasians in the Caucasus south of Russia, the Vilcabambans in the South American Andes, the Hunzans in Central Asia, and the people from the southern Japanese islands of Okinawa. Bringing the traditions of these ancient and vibrantly healthy cultures together with breakthroughs in medical science, Robbins reveals that, remarkably, they both point in the same direction: It is not diet and exercise alone that helps people to live well past one hundred. The quality of personal relationships is enormously significant for our longevity.
In Healthy at 100, Robbins isolates the characteristics that will enable us to live long and—more important—joyous lives. With an emphasis on simple, wholesome, yet satisfying fare, a manageable daily exercise routine, and the cultivation of strong, loving relationships, Robbins gives us the tools for making our later years a period of wisdom, vitality, and happiness.
“Healthy at 100 is a masterpiece.”—Dean Ornish, M.D.
“This is a remarkably open and heartfelt book full of wisdom and love. John Robbins has created a new vision of aging for American society”—John Mackey, CEO, Whole Foods
In this revolutionary book, bestselling author John Robbins reveals the secrets for living an extended and fulfilling life. He explores the example of four very different cultures that have the distinction of producing some of the world’s healthiest, oldest people: the Abkhasians in the Caucasus south of Russia, the Vilcabambans in the South American Andes, the Hunzans in Central Asia, and the people from the southern Japanese islands of Okinawa. Bringing the traditions of these ancient and vibrantly healthy cultures together with breakthroughs in medical science, Robbins reveals that, remarkably, they both point in the same direction: It is not diet and exercise alone that helps people to live well past one hundred. The quality of personal relationships is enormously significant for our longevity.
In Healthy at 100, Robbins isolates the characteristics that will enable us to live long and—more important—joyous lives. With an emphasis on simple, wholesome, yet satisfying fare, a manageable daily exercise routine, and the cultivation of strong, loving relationships, Robbins gives us the tools for making our later years a period of wisdom, vitality, and happiness.
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April 26, 2009
Call me Ishmael was a circus ape running ads in newspapers and educating us on the difference and collapse of the worlds way of living in harmony and peace for millions, maybe hundreds of millions of years on this blue ball floating in space in a galaxy not to far, far away....
This ape is fiction but his message is not. Have you read it? from Cain & Able on down man has not only managed to help destroy this planet, but also himself, or at least to bolster the money crazed "health Care industry" - rather sick care.
Where is loving peaceful ways of the garden of eden - were they myth? or real?
if you have seen the movie the 'Gods must be Crazy' you will glimps a real world where until as recently as that movie was made these loving little people lived, played, and died in very peaceful, and very healthy world of the Kalahari.
John Robbins the son of the ice cream empire by that name, found early on that this life style was not not healthy, but needed to know why. In his first book "Diet for New America" in his research John discovered what no one had know before, that the meat industry was killing our planet and us; using to much of our precious water, too much of our land to grow food for animals, and the waist of the animals was contributing too much to global warming - the methane gasses from cow flatulence, and from the manure are green house gasses.
But the biggest thing he discovered is the dying of the human heart to feel compassion, and love for our fellow beings on this earth.
Well I would say read that book if you haven't but first...
If you don't read anyother book this year read
his latest one:
Staying Healthy at 100 - How to get healthy at any age....
You'll discover with him the 3 ancient cultures that out lived us all - Hunza, the Okinawan,
where our modern diseases were unknown like cancer and heart disease.
You will discover two cultures that have existed and thrived for over 50,000 years and right here under our noses - where healthy longevity, harmony and loving peace, and even abundance, are the way of live.
John puts it all into perspective of how to live healthy, right now, in our culture, Holistically -
weigh the right weight for your body automatically, live disease free, and what to do help us all on the blue ball, live peaceful lives.
Yeshavanth Kumar
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April 14, 2015
Good to go through.
Leslie Reoyo
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January 12, 2015
Healthy at 100
About the author
Widely considered one of the world’s leading experts on the dietary link between the environment and health, John Robbins is the author of the million-copy bestseller Diet for a New America. His work has been the subject of cover stories and feature articles in the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and People. Robbins has been a featured and keynote speaker at hundreds of major conferences including those sponsored by the Sierra Club and UNICEF, and is the recipient of many awards, including the Rachel Carson Award and the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award. He is the founder of EarthSave International, a nonprofit organization dedicated to healthy food choices, preservation of the environment, and a more compassionate world. Robbins lives with his wife, Deo, their son, Ocean, and daughter-in-law, Michele, and their grand-twins River and Bodhi outside of Santa Cruz, California.
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