Breaking the Age Code

How Your Beliefs About Ageing Determine How Long and Well You Live

Breaking the Age Code
Rebecca Levy
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Paperback
h234 x 153mm - 288pg
14 Apr 2022 UK
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9781785043550
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Stunning revelations and powerful, scientifically-proven advice on how to live a healthy and vibrant long life from the world' s leading expert and pioneer in the field of ageing. Just changing the way you think about getting older can add 7. 6 years to your life. Just changing the way you think about getting older can add 7. 6 years to your life. Esteemed Yale professor Dr Becca Levy is the world' s leading expert and pioneer in the field of ageing. Now she shares the secrets to a healthy and vibrant long life in this powerful and authoritative book. Part polemic, part practical As Old As You Think offers offers stunning revelations and scientifically-proven advice on how to age well and live longer. First revealing the surprising impact our biases around ageing have on the ageing process, Dr Levy then sets out what we can do as individuals to help ourselves age well using her simple ABC method. She then tackles head on the question of how to start shifting Western cultural ideas around getting older. Positive, surprising and full of powerful, practical advice, As Old As You Think will dismantle commonly held assumptions about how we age and leave readers looking forward to - and no longer fearing - what the future holds.
A revolutionary paradigm shift in how we think about ageing * Elissa Epel, Professor & Vice Chair, University of California and co-Author of NYT Bestseller The Telomere Effect *
DR BECCA LEVY is the Professor of Epidemiology and the Chair of the Yale School of Public Health, Social & Behavioral Sciences Department. She is also a Professor of Psychology in the Yale University Department of Psychology. She is the leader and pioneer of a field of study that focuses on how both positive and negative age stereotypes affect the health of older individuals and has led WHO efforts to investigate the impact of ageism on the health of older people. She has published many articles, won numerous awards for her work and been cited widely across the media. She speaks extensively about her work around the world, including in the UK, Singapore, Korea, Germany, Switzerland and of course the US.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781785043550
Published: 14 Apr 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vermilion
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm
Spine: 30mm
Weight: 350g
Pages: 288

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