Baby Boomers' Guide to Healthy Aging

This book takes the reader on a voyage into the aging body, explaining why aging occurs. It deals with specific degenerative changes, such as heart disease, cancer, and dementia, explaining why these things happen and what can be done to ameliorate their effects. This is a book for today's aging population. Anyone 45 years or over will have a special interest in this book. However, its highly readable yet authoritative style makes it of interest also to anyone, outside of that age group, who just wants to understand the aging body. Although there are many books of this genre on the market, few of these combine the sound scientific research with ease of expression and readability, as does this one. For some of the ideas expressed in this book, this is their first unveiling in the public domain, although of course, they have been available in the scientific literature. It has the rare quality of being a book for the average reader and for the scientist and clinician at the same time. Baby boomers' guide to Healthy Aging is a book for everyone.