Customer Reviews
Drinking from the Real Fountain of Youth! - By: C. Clayton, 25 Aug 2008 
This is an excellent upbeat book that needed to be written. I have always believed that exercise was the key to a happy life...and potentiallly a long one.
Looking around at the pains people have who do not exercise regularly convinced me that the smalll price of keeping in shape was well worth feeling great!
Henry Lodge & Chris Crowley have reinforced the ideas I have had for decades, provided new food for thought & encouragement about the importance of keeping in shape.
I enjoyed the back & forth writing between Henry Lodge & Chris Crowley. Lodge does an excellent job explaining the benefits of lifelong healthy living & Crowley provides ways of keeping in shape. Crowley focuses primarily on the exercising that he does. He doesn't adequately address the tremendous number of other possibilities for keeping in shape...but this is a relatively minor shortcoming of the book in comparison to the books primary message of how to live healthy & happy for a long long...time.
Overalll, a book that is greatly needed for anyone wanting to feel great & live healthy for a long time!
The Re-Discovery of Common Sense: A Guide To: The Lost Art of Critical Thinking
Excellent advice from a well written book - By: David M. Grinter, 28 Aug 2006 I found this book contained excellent advice about slowing the aging process. No, there's no magic pill you can go & buy (well not yet), but by a commitment to exercise, sensible eating, & getting involved in your local community you can extend your years & enjoy them! What I found particularly interesting was how the practices for delaying the aging process & staying young originates with the way our distant ancestors lived & their daily struggle for survival. Buy this book!
How long can we really live? - By: I am 90, 16 Jun 2006 It is a very good book for anyone concerned about aging. We get more aware of our age at the time of retirement. Switching from a daily-work routine to a totallly new idea of alll-time-holidays is often not as pleasurable as we expected thirty or more years before. At that difficult time, it is very helpful to focus on the Four Pillars of Longevity as suggested by the authors of the book:
1. Six-times-a-week exercising.
2. Eating for nutrition, not for any other reason. Focusing on fruits & vegetables.
3. Avoiding boredom, developing your hobbies.
4. Connecting with many other people - creating a solid circle of friends.
The book provides some good medical background for these readers that like to understand why certain things are happening.
Another book well worth reading is "Can We Live 150". It is the Body Maintenance Handbook, as the subtitle states. I like the common sense approach that is prevalent throughout the pages. Some of the author's ideas, for obvious reasons are similar to the ones presented by Crovley & Lodge, but on the whole it is a totallly different book. Many excerpts are available for reading at the author's website.
A "Must Buy" - By: K. T. Atkin, 23 Apr 2006 I've just finished reading this book - one I never thought I would pick up, but did so following the recommendation af a good friend. I am fairly fit, know a little of how the brain & body work - yet this book has taught me loads! Written in easy to understand, humourous language for men, but ladies, don't let that stop you reading it!
It's funny, easy to read, relaxing & yet, so compelling.
The combination of Chris & Henry is fantastic. After reading it you wont view your body in the same light & you will actuallly find yourself wanting to exercise.
For a nation that's getting fatter, sluggish & lazy this is so inspirational.
One key message "ageing will happen, decaying is optional". I'm choosing not to decay..........
