Live Long, Die Short: A Guide to Authentic Health and Successful Aging
by Roger Landry, M.D., MPH —
The book shares the incredible story of that program and lays out a path for anyone at any point in life who wants to achieve authentic health and empower themselves to age in a better way.
More than a decade ago, a landmark 10-year study by the MacArthur Foundation shattered the stereotypes of aging as a process of slow, genetically determined decline.
The researchers found that 70 percent of physical aging and about 50 percent of mental aging is determined by lifestyle — the choices we make every day.
That means that if we optimize our lifestyles, we can live longer and “die shorter” by compressing the decline period into the very end of a fulfilling, active old age.
Landry and his colleagues have spent years bringing the MacArthur study’s findings to life with a program called Masterpiece Living.
The book shares the incredible story of that program and lays out a path for anyone at any point in life who wants to achieve authentic health and empower themselves to age in a better way.
Landry encourages you to take a Lifestyle Inventory to assess where your health stands now and then leads you through his Ten Tips for successful aging, each of which is backed by the latest research, real-life stories and the insights Landry, a former Air Force surgeon and current preventive medicine physician, has gained in his years of experience.
The result is a guide that will reshape your conception of what it means to grow old and equip you with the tools you need to lead a long, healthy, happy life.
$16.95 — Greenleaf Book Group Press, P.O. Box 91869, Austin, TX 78709.
Reprinted from AzNetNews, Volume 34, Number 1, February/March 2015.
March 2, 2015
Book review, February/March 2015 Issue, Health