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The Blue Zones secrets for living longer : lessons from the healthiest places on earth
\"This illustrated guide to the Blue Zones includes lessons, top longevity foods and behaviors, and a surprising new Blue Zone\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The politics of happiness
During the past forty years, thousands of studies have been carried out on the subject of happiness. Some have explored the levels of happiness or dissatisfaction associated with typical daily activities, such as working, seeing friends, or doing household chores. Others have tried to determine the extent to which income, family, religion, and other factors are associated with the satisfaction people feel about their lives. The Gallup organization has begun conducting global surveys of happiness, and several countries are considering publishing periodic reports on the growth or decline of happiness among their people. One nation, tiny Bhutan, has actually made \"Gross National Happiness\" the central aim of its domestic policy. How might happiness research affect government policy in the United States--and beyond? In The Politics of Happiness, former Harvard president Derek Bok examines how governments could use the rapidly growing research data on what makes people happy--in a variety of policy areas to increase well-being and improve the quality of life for all their citizens.
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What to eat when : a strategic plan to improve your health & life through food
\"This guide reveals how to use food to enhance our personal and professional lives--and increase longevity to boot\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Great myths of aging
Great Myths of Aging looks at the generalizations and stereotypes associated with older people and, with a blend of humor and cutting-edge research, dispels those common myths. Reader-friendly structure breaks myths down into categories such as Body, Mind, and Living Contexts; and looks at myths from “Older people lose interest in sex” to “Older people are stingy” Explains the origins of myths and misconceptions about aging Looks at the unfortunate consequences of anti-aging stereotypes for both the reader and older adults in society
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Quantum body : the new science of living a longer, healthier, more vital life
\"In an unprecedented collaboration between three of today's most powerful minds, Deepak Chopra, M.D., teams up with physicist Jack Tuszynski, Ph.D., and endocrinologist Brian Fertig, M.D., to bring readers a visionary work that delves into the innovative world of quantum science and shows how unlocking its secrets can revolutionize how we live and age--and, ultimately, how we can eradicate disease. The key is the quantum body. Unlike our physical body, which is subject to aging, injury, and decay, the quantum body exists on a sub-atomic level and is the infinite, invisible source of everyday reality that affects your thoughts, feelings, sensations, and biological responses. Without your quantum body, there is no physical body. And this lack of awareness of the most crucial part of ourselves negatively impacts our lives every day. Through a powerful combination of prescriptive exercises and innovative research into the quantum world, the authors unveil seven breakthroughs that will revolutionize the future of everyone's well-being. Central to this revolution is a groundbreaking understanding of metabolism-the way our cells process energy-that promises to challenge our understanding of modern medicine as we know it. Though all too familiar in the physical world, Alzheimer's, type 2 diabetes, cancer, and heart disease do not exist at the fundamental level of quantum reality. By harnessing the power of the quantum body, we can significantly improve our physical and mental well-being, including supporting healthy cell, tissue, and organ function, boosting immunity, promoting mental resilience, and expanding our understanding of what it means to live a happy and purposeful life. In this groundbreaking book, Chopra, Tuszynski, and Fertig show you the way by unveiling the \"real\" reality of your body and mind as never before and providing a vision for a tomorrow that is already here\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Genomics Age
Entertaining, informative, and written in plain English by a world-class science and technology journalist, \"The Genomics Age\" explores how recent leaps in the understanding of DNA offer astounding scientific promises, and pose complex ethical issues. It covers all areas of our lives that might change, and subjects that are hot and frequently in the news, such as anti-aging and longevity, stem cell research, \"designer\" babies, and of course the social, moral and ethical questions that accompany these subjects.
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The biology of kindness : six daily choices for health, well-being, and longevity
\"Explains how our life behaviors can affect our state of health by comparing science and conscience in a revolutionary approach to health, longevity and quality of life\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Locating Health
Originally presented as papers in the 1991 British Sociological Association Conference on Health and Society, Locating Health represents a valuable addition to the ‘health inequalities’ debate by extending our gaze beyond the traditional locations to include place, consumption and lifestyle. It offers reconceptualization of key theoretical terms, including work, income, and public/private domains as well as addressing the reciprocal influence of health and social location, for example early retirement; and highlighting the health consequences of multiple locations, such as gender and class, gender and age.
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About the editors
Notes on the contributors
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Foreword, Uta Gerhardt
1. Introduction, Stephen Platt and Hilary Thomas
2. The Impact of Income Inequality on Life Expectancy, Richard Wilkinson
3. The Gendered Resource Triangle: Health and Resources in Later Life, Sara Arber and Jay Ginn
4. Gendered Differences in Longevity and Health in Eastern and Western Europe, Sally Macintyre
5. Feminism and the Health Consequences of Women’s Work in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Britain, Barbara Harrison
6. Conditions of Formal and Domestic Labour: Toward an Integrated Framework for the Analysis of Gender and Social Class Inequalities in Health, Jennie Popay and Mel Bartley
7. Health Issues in Male Early Retirement, Dallas Cliff
8. Occupational Health in the UK Gas Industry: A Study of Employer, Medical and Worker Knowledge and Action on Occupational Health in the Late Nineteenth an Early Twentieth Century, Andrew Watterson
9. How Do Places Shape Health? Rethinking Locality and Lifestyle in North-East England, Peter Phillimore
10. The Health Costs of Britain’s Industrialization: A Perspective from the Celtic Periphery, Rory Williams
11. ‘Keeping up with the Joneses?’ Private Health Insurance as a Consumption Good?, Michael Calnan, Sarah Cant and Jonathan Gabe
12. Health and Ignorance: Past and Present, David Smith and Malcolm Nicolson
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Jellyfish age backwards : nature's secrets to longevity
Blending together the most cutting-edge research and stories from habitats all over the world, a molecular biologist explores what nature has to teach us about aging, revealing life spans we cannot imagine and physiological gifts that feel closer to magic than reality.
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Midlife and Older LGBT Adults
Gain insight into the various practice issues that arise when working with midlife and older LGBT persons!Take a unique look at the lives of midlife and older LGBT persons in Midlife and Older LGBT Adults. This book reviews various life arenas in which midlife and older LGBT persons exist and the problems with which they cope. It addresses the lives of this group-from their sexual identities to their family and work situations. The book includes research-based knowledge on issues such as coming out, disclosure, education, work, family, general positives and negatives, and more. Not only does this book discuss the lifestyles of individuals in this group, but it also includes how social services professionals can respond to their needs in an affirmative way. The book provides an overview of practice issues with midlife and older LGBT persons to help social workers and other human services workers treat individuals in this group more effectively. It also identifies changes in diagnostics, treatments, and human services. The book presents numerous studies involving midlife and older LGBT persons and an extensive reference list for further information.In Midlife and Older LGBT Adults you'll learn how to help individuals in this group deal with:
coming out-the positives and the negatives
disclosure to different audiences
benefits of community involvement and participation
family lives including friends and significant others
transitions and downturns
HIV/AIDS
victimization, loneliness, loss
and much more!This book will appeal to any social services professional interested in or working with individuals in this population. It serves as a useful resource for human services workers and administrators by outlining practice issues. It is also suitable as a textbook for students in courses on adult development and aging. Midlife and older LGBT person
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