Be Fit for Life: A Guide to Successful Aging is a self-help book for anyone interested in living a happier and healthier life. Aging is a life-long process and the sooner one accepts this and better prepares for the years ahead, the more successful his/her aging process will be. Dr Gambert, a noted authority in the field of aging and medicine, takes the reader on a journey that provides information and practical advice on how to best prevent an accelerated aging process, avoid disease, and recognize and treat problems early.This book also offers practical information to help the reader choose the right diet, exercise plan and lifestyle that will help promote a more successful aging process.
Ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. Step one : preventing an accelerated aging process -- ch. 3. Step 2 : preventing disease -- ch. 4. Step 3 : recognize and treat problems early -- ch. 5. Simple steps you can take to avoid accelerating your aging process -- ch. 6. Eat a healthy diet to promote wellness and prevent disease -- ch. 7. The role of vitamins in promoting successful aging -- ch. 8. The role of minerals in successful aging -- ch. 9. The role of fiber in successful aging -- ch. 10. Fat, cholesterol and illness -- ch. 11. Reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease through diet and lifestyle -- ch. 12. The role of protein in successful aging -- ch. 13. The role of carbohydrates in health and disease -- ch. 14. Tips to achieve a healthier diet : eat smart -- ch. 15. Selected foods : unexpected benefits -- ch. 16. Foods for specific goals -- ch. 17. The mind-body connection and its role in reducing stress -- ch. 18. Sleep : necessary for physical and mental well-being -- ch. 19. Exercise : an essential path to successful aging -- ch. 20. The role of exercise in weight management -- ch. 21. Body composition and body shape type -- ch. 22. Taking the next step in your exercise program to attain a more successful aging process -- ch. 23. You are what you eat! -- ch. 24. Choosing a diet : what will work? -- ch. 25. Want to lose weight? -- ch. 26. Final considerations prior to choosing the "right" diet for YOU -- ch. 27. Ten helpful suggestions to help YOU lose unwanted weight and keep it off! -- ch. 28. Dieting : what are my choices? -- ch. 29. The Be Fit for Life Diet : a diet YOU can live with -- ch. 30. Next steps for a more successful aging process
Long overdue, Positive Psychiatry provides a rigorous and clinically useful guide to the growing body of research that strongly suggests that positive psychosocial factors such as resilience, optimism, and social engagement are associated with better outcomes, including lower morbidity, greater longevity, and a heightened sense of patient well-being. Because most of the research has been conducted outside of the field of psychiatry, it has had relatively little influence on everyday clinical practice. This volume, written and edited by luminaries in the field, hopes to remedy this situation by introducing clinicians to the guiding principles of positive psychiatry, which hold that mental health cannot be defined as the mere reduction or even elimination of mental illness, and that mental health professionals must focus on more than simply controlling the symptoms of illness. To that end, the book, while biologically grounded and exhaustively referenced, is also structured and written to be accessible. It includes many useful features: Bulleted outlines of key clinical points are included where appropriate, fostering direct application of positive psychiatry constructs, measures, interventions, and outcomes into clinical practice and training. An abundance of interesting and compelling clinical vignettes illustrate how to incorporate positive psychiatry techniques and treatment strategies into practice. Comprehensive coverage makes this volume the "go-to" resource for researchers and clinicians seeking an overview and details of what positive psychiatry is, why it is needed, and how to integrate it into research, practice, and training. The roster of contributors is a "who's who" in the field of positive mental health, rendering this the definitive source of information on positive psychiatry. Chief among the book's strengths is its emphasis on empirically grounded applications, and the editors have ensured that limitations in the available evidence base are identified, as well as directions for further research. Positive Psychiatry fills a critical gap in the treatment literature, and researchers, clinicians, and trainees in psychiatry and allied mental health fields will welcome its publication.
This volume examines the manifold, often contradictory, aspects of ageing, considering the ways in which contemporary social transformations affect the experience, conception, interpretation, and representation of ageing. Thematically arranged, it brings together the latest scholarly work from around the world to consider theories and narratives of ageing and the effects of space and place on identity and the experience of old age. Combining micro and macro perspectives, as well as theoretical and applied research, this interdisciplinary volume offers cross-cultural and comparative studies that resist overgeneralization and reductivism in an effort to shed fresh light on our experience, understanding, and response to ageing in the modern world. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences, particularly sociology, gerontology, demography, social policy, and cultural studies, with interests in ageing and later life.
Discover why Fit for Life's easy-to-follow weight-loss plan has made this enduring classic one of the bestselling diet books of all time! It's the program that shatters all the myths: Fit for Life the international bestseller that explains how to change both your figure and your life. Nutritional specialist Harvey and Marilyn Diamond explain how you can eat more kinds of food than you ever ate before without counting calories...and still lose weight! The natural body cycles, permanent weight-loss plan that proves it's not only what you eat, but also when and how, Fit for Life is the perfect solution for those who want to look and feel their best. Join the millions of Americans who are Fit for Life and begin your transformation with: The vital principles that bring you permanent weight loss and high energy The Fit for Life secrets of timing and food combining that work with your natural body cycles A 4-week meal plan, menus, shopping tips, and exercise Delicious recipes and more.
"The first-ever weight-loss plan specifically designed to stop-and reverse-age-related weight gain and muscle loss, while shrinking your belly, extending your life, and creating your healthiest self at mid-life and beyond"--
A companion to 'The life plan' distills the author's fitness program into a simple, customizable format that incorporates additional exercises, new meal plans, an expanded food guide, and the latest information on hormone optimization.
The flagship title of the certification suite from the American College of Sports Medicine, ACSM's Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription is a handbook that delivers scientifically based standards on exercise testing and prescription to the certification candidate, the professional, and the student. The 9th edition focuses on evidence-based recommendations that reflect the latest research and clinical information. This manual is an essential resource for any health/fitness and clinical exercise professional, physician, nurse, physician assistant, physical and occupational therapist, dietician, and health care administrator. This manual give succinct summaries of recommended procedures for exercise testing and exercise prescription in healthy and diseased patients.
A program that focuses attention on schoolwide wellness during four weeks of the school year. Helps schools incorporate coordinated activities that will enable them to meet national standards and guidelines for physical activity and nutrition.
