Book review * Younger Next Year for Women
by Chris Crowley and Henry S. Lodge, MD
Younger Next Year for Women>
This book is about aging gracefully. The subtitle (Live Like You’re 50 – Strong, Fit, Sexy – Until You’re 80 and Beyond) makes it sound like there’s nothing useful here for women under 50, but that’s not true. A lot of this is just plain good information.
The authors alternate chapters, which is a good way to balance the sometimes “information overload” of medical details. Crowley is a normal guy, so his chapters take that medical detail and make it real for the rest of us. We particularly enjoyed the chapters on fitness and exercise (chapter 9 had us laughing out loud – for real).
The chapters on diet and nutrition aren’t quite in line with the Total Health Makeover®, but they emphasize lots of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, legumes, and lean proteins. There’s mention of low-fat dairy, but we’d substitute non-dairy products and do just fine with the general recommendations.
There are other chapters on maintaining relationships and connections, and staying active in the community that put the book in a “total health” category. And they’re good additions to a book on healthy aging, when isolation becomes a health issue.
Perhaps “Harry’s Rules” are the best summary of the book.
Harry’s Rules
- Exercise six days a week for the rest of your life.
- Do serious aerobic exercise four days a week for the rest of your life.
- Do serious strength training, with weights, two days a week for the rest of your life.
- Spend less than you make.
- Quit eating crap!
- Care.
- Connect and commit.
~ Henry S. Lodge, MD, in Younger Next Year for Women
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