Live A Longer Life: The Scientific Secrets for Health and Wellbeing at A ny Age

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What is it that makes some people seem so youthful? What gives someone in their sixties or their nineties their energy and zest for life? Live a Longer Life will tell you the secrets. What is it that makes some people seem so youthful? What gives someone in their sixties or their nineties their energy and zest for life? Live a Longer Life will tell you the secrets. Drawing on the most up-to-date and respected research, ABC medical journalist Sophie Scott has written the self-help book for every adult. Whether you are older and want to know how you can keep - or regain -your sense of wellbeing and vigour, or someone who has just had the first indication of mortality, this book is for you. It covers everything from nutrition, dietary supplements and exercise to brain health and exercises (to keep dementia at bay!), the importance of a healthy sex life, and anti-ageing products. With case studies, recipes, menus and exercise regimes, Live a Longer Life will help to keep your real age a secret.

Sophie Scott is the national medical reporter for the ABC. Her stories appear on the ABC's flagship TV news bulletin at 7.00pm, as well as 'Lateline', 'Stateline' and 'The 7.30 Report'. She also presents a weekly health show for the ABC's Australia Network and ABC Online called 'Health Watch'. In 2005, Sophie received the Media award at the Research Australia 'Thank You' Day Awards in recognition of her ability to communicate complex information in a way that the general community can easily understand. In 2004, she won the Australian Museum Eureka award for medical reporting. Her first book, 'Live a Longer Life', was published in 2007.

Health and Fitness