AGEING WELL (two volumes): What are the secrets of a long and healthy life? How do we adapt our diet to achieve this? And what else do we need to do – physically, emotionally and spiritually? This two-volume set is your blueprint for a long and healthy life, and includes dietary advice, great exercise ideas, and the drugs you must avoid. It also includes ideas on looking good, too, such as fighting hair loss and wrinkles.
Part One:
Common conditions
2 Preventing cataracts
4 AMD: it’s inflammation not age
6 Thyroid problems: never say forever
8 Hearing loss
11 Parkinson’s disease
13 Osteoporosis: the brain–bone connection
16 Male pattern baldness
19 Chronic back pain
22 Stroke
Women’s health
24 Beating the change
27 Herbal helpers for women over 50
29 Hair loss
31 Saving face
34 Varicose veins
Dangerous drugs
37 Medicine and the elderly
41 The damaged brain
46 HRT: the latest cancer risk
47 Statins: the big ‘cure-all’ unmasked
48 Building brittle bones
Part two:
Keeping fit
2 Balance training for an active lifestyle
4 Step up to better balance
5 Good vibrations
6 Walking towards fitness
Healthy joints
7 Healthy joints
9 Cetylated fatty acids
Mind-body connections
11 Sound body, sound mind
12 Change your mind, change your health
13 Only the lonely
18 Meditation is good medicine
19 Qigong
21 Tai Chi
Functional foods
22 Power foods: meals and drinks as good as drugs
27 Tomatoes: our everyday heroes
29 Berry good for you
31 The best diet for better bones
Top tips for ageing well
32 Anti-ageing for the brain
33 20 ways to keep the doctor at bay