Younger Next Year or Survive

Younger Next Year: A Guide to Living Like 50 Until You're 80 and Beyond

Author: Chris Crowley

Turn back your biological clock. A breakthrough book for men--as much fun to read as it is persuasive--Younger Next Year draws on the very latest science of aging to show how men 50 or older can become functionally younger every year for the next five to ten years, and continue to live like fifty-year-olds until well into their eighties. To enjoy life and be stronger, healthier, and more alert. To stave off 70% of the normal decay associated with aging (weakness, sore joints, apathy), and to eliminate over 50% of all illness and potential injuries. This is the real thing, a program that will work for anyone who decides to apply himself to "Harry's Rules."

Harry is Henry S. Lodge, M.D., a specialist in internal medicine and preventive healthcare. Chris Crowley is Harry's 70-year-old patient who's stronger today (and skiing better) than when he was 40. Together, in alternating chapters that are lively, sometimes outspoken, and always utterly convincing, they spell out Harry's Rules and the science behind them. The rules are deceptively simple: Exercise Six Days a Week. Eat What You Know You Should. Connect to Other People and Commit to Feeling Passionate About Something. The science, simplified and demystified, ranges from the molecular biology of growth and decay to how our bodies and minds evolved (and why they fare so poorly in our sedentary, all-feast no-famine culture). The result is nothing less than a paradigm shift in our view of aging.

Welcome to the next third of your life--train for it, and you'll have a ball.

Publishers Weekly

Believing they have a unique approach for improving men's lives, Crowley, a former litigator, and Lodge, a board-certified internist, collaborated to write this "evolutionary" health program. The authors base their plan on the idea that instead of looking forward to decades of pain as the body slowly deteriorates, it's possible to live as if you were 50, maybe even younger, for the rest of your life. Yet with the exception of "Harry's First Rule"-exercise at least six days a week-there isn't much that's new or groundbreaking in their agenda. Most recommendations fall under the "common sense" umbrella, though these suggestions may be news to many men, who aren't as steeped in the world of health and fitness as most women are (they may find the chapters dealing with nutrition and biology particularly informative). The authors' method of proffering their philosophy is rather trite, however, and their cavalier demeanor belies the significance of what they have to say. More than one-third of the book is devoted to how and why they came up with this program based on their own lives, with special attention to 70-year-old Crowley's impressive abilities (he says he can ski better now than he could 20 years ago). All told, this manual for healthy living offers sound, if unoriginal, advice with some hackneyed padding. (Jan.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

Writing alternate chapters in this how to live better longer book, Crowley, a retired litigator and septuagenarian, first presents the lay reader's point of view; Lodge (Columbia Univ. Medical Sch.) then gives the physician's scientific follow-up on aging well. Drawing on Crowley's "Harry's 7 Rules" (e.g., exercise six days a week for the rest of your life, quit eating crap, and connect and commit), the authors explain how a man can reverse his biological clock and become functionally younger, making the last third of his life his best years. Written in a jocular, conversational style, the text exudes a hail-fellow-well-met exuberance that failed to reach this reader, who would have preferred more facts and less camaraderie. Those looking for a vade mecum to the Fountain of Youth are advised to wait for a better-written road map with more landmarks.-James Swanton, Harlem Hosp. Lib., New York Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Survive!: Essential Skills and Tactics to Get You Out of Anywhere - Alive

Author: Les Stroud

From the sun-scortched sands of the Kalaharo to the snake-infested juingles of the Amazon, Les Stroud has made a life of surviving in the harshest—and most remote—regions on Earth.

Now, the creator, producer, and host of the hit television program Survivorman transfers his decades of knowledge and experience to the pages of Survive!, a practical guide that gives everyday readers a no-nonsense look at the real world of survival.

Stroud offers readers the essential skills and tactics necessary to endure in any corner of the globe, along with a wealth of insider information born of his own experiences in the outdoors and unavailable in any other book. Readers will learn:

• How to make a survival shelter and why a lean-to is largely a waste of time.
• Why survival kits are important, and why you should make your own.
• Where to find water and why drinking contaminated water is sometimes warranted.
• How to locate and trap small animals and why the notion of tracking and hunting large game is largely a pipe dream.

Whether seasoned in the outdoor arts or new to adventuring, all raders will learn something from Survive!. Stroud's many colorful anecdotes and cut-to-the-chase philosophynot only make for an entertaining read, but also enhance anyone's ability to focus on the main goal when everything else has gone wrong—survival.