The Longevity Project : surprising discoveries for health and long life from the landmark eight-decade study / Howard S. Friedman and Leslie R. Martin
- Bib ID:
- 8037536
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Friedman, Howard S, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
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- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- Carlton North : Scribe Publications, 2011
- Carlton North, Victoria : Scribe Publications Pty Ltd, 2011
- ©2011
- 1 online resource (272 pages)
- ISBN:
- 9781921753947 (EPUB : : :)
- Summary:
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We have been told that the key to longevity involves obsessing over what we eat, how much we stress, and how fast we run. Based on the most extensive study of longevity ever conducted, The Longevity Project exposes what really has an impact on our lifespan - including friends, family, personality, and work. By gathering new information and studying participants across eight decades, Dr Howard Friedman and Dr Leslie Martin bust myths about achieving health and long life. For example, people do not die from working long hours - many who worked the hardest lived the longest. Getting and staying married is not the ticket for living to 100, especially for women. And it's not the happy-go-lucky who thrive - it's the persistent and responsible who flourish through the years. With questionnaires that help you to determine where you are heading on the longevity spectrum and advice about how to stay healthy, this book changes the conversation about living a long, healthy life.
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- Cover page; title page; copyright page; dedication; contents; introduction: the breakthrough studies of a lifetime; chapter 1: personality and long life: who stays well?; chapter 2: long live the prudent and persistent; chapter 3: friendly and convivial: healthy or trivial?; chapter 4: happiness and health? a cheery conundrum; chapter 5: catastrophic thinking: the fates of chicken littles; chapter 6: childhood and school days: head start, early finish; chapter 7: parental divorce: some were resilient; chapter 8: running for their lives: jocks vs. nerds.
- Chapter 9: to sickness or to health? love, marriage, and divorcechapter 10: careers, success, and satisfaction: thriving and surviving; chapter 11: long life meets the afterlife: religion and health; chapter 12: confidants, networks, and the power of social life; chapter 13: the gender gap in long life; chapter 14: the toll of war and trauma: why some thrive; chapter 15: individual paths to health and long life (and why we won't take polypills); epilogue: long life and public health: looking ahead to what society should do; acknowledgments; research collaborators; notes.
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- Description based upon print version of record.
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- Awards:
- Winner, Books for Better Life.
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- Publication date:
- 2011
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