| Are you in Prime-Time Health? | | | | our overall health. And another point I really like is how |
| I just finished reading this new book on anti-aging. It is | | | | Dr. Sears illustrates that our whole body is related. |
| called Prime-Time Health by Dr William Sears and | | | | Changes that impact our heart, for instance, can also |
| Martha Sears. They have written other popular health | | | | impact our skin, mental health, and overall appearance. |
| books. One important thing to note about Dr. Sears is | | | | So maybe I should call this book is the Look Good, |
| that he survived cancer 7 years ago. A lot of his | | | | Feel Good, Stay Healthy Book! |
| health advice to make everybody healthier stems | | | | Here are some of the simple suggestions: |
| from his own fight with disease. | | | | Eat more good carbs and good fats. Do not give up |
| This book does not rely on any so-called miracle pills, | | | | on carbohydrates and fats, but replace the bad ones |
| magic tricks, or mail order herbs. It does lay out a | | | | with the good ones. The book will explain which types |
| simple plan for improving our health through diet and | | | | of fats and carbs are actually good for you, and which |
| exercise. There is nothing preachy about the book, but | | | | to avoid most of the time. It also goes into the scientific |
| just a collection of clear facts about why and how we | | | | studies to back up these suggestions. |
| should improve our lifestyles. These improvements will | | | | Enjoy moderate exercise. The book does not tell us |
| help us look and feel better. They should help us resist | | | | we all have to become marathon runners, but it does |
| disease. And in the end, they should help us live longer | | | | suggest taking at least 2 hours a week out to get fit. |
| and healthier lives. | | | | Two hours is something that most of us could enjoy |
| If you have already done a lot of research about anti | | | | by taking short walks every day. The key is to keep |
| aging and health after 50, you may not really learn | | | | up a routine, and actually do the two hours of exercise |
| anything new. But you may come to understand why | | | | a week. |
| doctors and scientists are telling middle aged and older | | | | Avoid bad sugar, but enjoy good sugar. Fruit sugar, |
| people to make these changes. | | | | which is consumed with an entire fruit that also has |
| If you have not explored health over 50, this book is a | | | | fiber, is good for most of us. Refined sugar, especially |
| great place to start. It lays out all of the latest medical | | | | consumed straight in a soda, is not so good for us. |
| research on diet, exercise, and lifestyle changes that | | | | Balance the bad with the good. We are told to enjoy |
| have been clearly demonstrated to help older people | | | | more fish and avoid fatty read meat. But if we must |
| resist disease, and to stay healthy longer. | | | | go out and have a steak once in awhile, to be sure not |
| Look Good, Feel Good, Stay Healthy! | | | | to skip the salad, and to eat it with fruit rather than |
| What I really enjoyed about this health plan is that it is | | | | more fat. |
| not intended to take over our lives with some rigid | | | | I think most of us can benefit from the tips in |
| discipline that nobody could stick to. Most of us could | | | | Prime-Time Health. |
| just make some simple and gentle changes to improve | | | | |