I am pleased to announce the launching of this self-help and motivational book on aging, health, and fitness. The ebook is ready and the paperback will follow. (It may make a great Christmas gift for a loved one). Here's the synopsis for Younger Next Decade. After Fifty, the Transitional Decade, and What You Need to Know. http://amzn.to/vBwTGI
Looking for straight talk when it comes to your health after fifty? Want sound advice for the decade Doctor Ebel calls the transitional decade and beyond? Want to know the why, what, and how to maximize your well-being before it’s too late?
In fourteen chapters, Dr. Barbara writes with affability and in lay person’s language about bodily changes over fifty, smoking and its toll, diet and weight, alcohol, stress and caffeine, and exercise, to name a few. She touches on medical issues such as Diabetes and hypertension, and even the benefits and harm about sunshine.
Dr. Ebel gives us suggested rules and guidelines to improve our health using many of her own examples. And to top off this insightful read? She brings on board new refreshing ideas and topics such as spirit, dogs, and productivity!
As a primary care physician practicing in a small town, I am always looking for resources that help patients understand how their diet and exercise habits impact their overall health. Recently, I had a chance to review Younger Next Decade by Dr. Barbara Ebel.
In her book, Dr. Ebel focuses on lifestyle changes that can make a big difference in thwarting the effects of aging. Much of her material focuses on how age alters our bodies, with an emphasis on life after fifty. She does a good job of communicating medical information in layman’s terms, and she makes good points about why people should abandon unhealthy habits before they cause irreversible harm.
Her chapters focus not only on aspects of physical health, like diet, exercise, and the dangers of smoking, but also on the importance of mental and spiritual health. At the end of each chapter, she makes practical suggestions on how one can make simple adjustments to start down the path of healthier living. Her tone is cheerful and encouraging – sort of like a motivational speaker – and mostly avoids finger wagging.
I believe the book is a good resource for a person who is nearing that fiftieth birthday and wondering how to start a healthier living plan. As Dr. Ebel points out, taking care of both the physical and spiritual components of our health are necessary to make life after fifty more enjoyable.
Here's a US Kindle store customer review for Younger Next Decade : After Fifty, the Transitional Decade, and what You Need to Know -
5.0 out of 5 stars practical guide, December 10, 2011
By
MaryDell Sommers - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)
This review is from: Younger Next Decade (Kindle Edition)
Finally some advice and guidance that is easy to understand and follow. You don't have to be a former athlete to follow the down-to-earth advice.
Here's an Amazon customer review for Younger Next Decade: After Fifty, the Transitional Decade, and what You Need to Know:
5.0 out of 5 stars Ahh ... to be young again! July 26, 2012
By Joanne Mazzotta
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
Finding this book while lurking in a writers Amazon Discussion group, the title bore witness to my middle age concerns about aging, and while not quite feeling my mortality, I was feeling my thickening body and the crow's feet around my eyes. Ego and vanity had arrived in my left frontal lobe, making a landing in my mirror, haunting me. I squinted my eyes, but it didn't help. I tried new makeup and clothing styles and that didn't help either. I didn't stop buying clothes in my beloved size 8, promising to use those clothes as a proposition I could make with fattening foods.
I liked the title, so I bought Dr. Barbara's book, Younger Next Decade, hoping for some magical simple age undoing advice.
Thanks to Dr. Barbara, I know what telomeres are. And the analogy she used to teach it to me was perfect for a right brainer like me who sees what she is hearing or reading. While I was reading the first pages I began to get some hope that there might be a secret,easy magic way to undo my aging self, and make it young again.
Telomeres plays a part in aging she tells us and she tells it without making you rush to the dictionary of science. Her tell on the specifics of aging includes a logical promise that the future holds the answer to the actual undoing of the appearance of old age written on our bodies.
As any good doctor will, she gave me a new mantra. "Don't eat anything passed through a window and don't eat anything that wasn't available a hundred years ago." That was after she detailed the reasons why we age so fast after age 30, and I knew that her quote borrowed from Albert Einstein was true. "If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is not hope for it." The absurd idea is that researchers will one day find a way to bring youth back to your body. But for now Dr. Barbara Ebel shows us how we can do it ourselves, with food, without cigarettes, with spirit, mirth, intelligence, and a litany of other ways; mostly by caring for ourselves in this world of tainted foods, evironmentaly infused dangers and gluten saturated fast food purchased in a hurry by working mothers at drive thru windows. Entertaining and educational read.
Here are the topics covered in 14 chapters. This informative and enjoyable health guide is only $1.99. You're worth it, aren't you?
1. Introduction
2. Spirit
3. Smoking
4. Diet and Weight
5. Spirit (& productivity)
6. How is Your Body Changing?
7. Alcohol
8. Stress
9. Dogs
10. Spirit and Sunshine – the good and the bad
11. Disorders (Diabetes, high blood pressure etc.)
12. Sleep and caffeine
13. Exercise
14. Exercise and Spirit
Younger Next Decade: After Fifty, the Transitional Decade, and what You Need to Know
