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Health and fitness over fifty / Bob O'Connor and Christine Wells.

By: O'Connor, Robert, 1932-.
Contributor(s): Wells, Chris L. (Christine Lynn), 1963-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Wiltshire : Crowood Press, 1999Description: 192 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 1861262086.Subject(s): Exercise | Physical fitness | Middle age | Older people -- Health and hygieneDDC classification: 613.70446
Contents:
Do you honestly want to feel better and live longer? -- Theories of how we age -- The diseases of the blood vessels -- Cancer -- Other chronic and degenerative diseases -- Protein, fats and carbohydrates -- Vitamins, minerals and fibre -- Applying our knowledge to the dinner table -- Supplementing your diet -- Tobacco -- Alcohol -- Physical fitness for endurance -- Strength exercising for muscles and bones -- Flexibility and posture -- Taking care of yourself while exercising -- Stress -- Coping with stress -- Developing your own positive health and fitness programme.
Summary: The aim of this book is to help you to develop a plan to achieve optimum health, to provide suggestions for motivation for sticking to the plan, and to establish goals to strive for, whilst making healthy living part of your everyday life.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 613.70446 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00091932
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 613.70446 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00091931
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

It is now scientifically established that in order to live long and fulfilling lives, there are a few simple things we should do: exercise more, give up smoking, reduce our stress levels, eat less fat, drink in moderation, and so on. The aim of this book is to help you to develop a plan to achieve optimum health, to provide suggestions for motivation for sticking to the plan, and to establish goals to strive for, while making healthy living part of your everyday life. It will not only improve your health now, but can also reverse many of the adverse affects of advancing age, and help you to develop a greater joy in living.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-189) and index.

Do you honestly want to feel better and live longer? -- Theories of how we age -- The diseases of the blood vessels -- Cancer -- Other chronic and degenerative diseases -- Protein, fats and carbohydrates -- Vitamins, minerals and fibre -- Applying our knowledge to the dinner table -- Supplementing your diet -- Tobacco -- Alcohol -- Physical fitness for endurance -- Strength exercising for muscles and bones -- Flexibility and posture -- Taking care of yourself while exercising -- Stress -- Coping with stress -- Developing your own positive health and fitness programme.

The aim of this book is to help you to develop a plan to achieve optimum health, to provide suggestions for motivation for sticking to the plan, and to establish goals to strive for, whilst making healthy living part of your everyday life.