Longevity Strategy or Overcoming the Legacy of Overeating

Longevity Strategy: How to Live to 100 Using the Brain-Body Connection

Author: David Mahoney

" A wise and compelling guide . . . the true fountain of youth."—Dr. Stephen R. Covey author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

The acclaimed life plan for good health, fulfilling relationships, and financial security

The brain-body connection is the interaction among three factors: the health of your brain, your attitude, and your physical health. In this breakthrough guide to a longer, better life, authors David Mahoney and Richard Restak, M.D., draw on state-of-the-art brain-body research to demonstrate the vital importance of handling stress properly, lifelong education and mental activity (use it or lose it!), the social connection, physical exercise, and rearranging your brain's hardwiring toward optimism. Featuring 31 practical, essential tactics, The Longevity Strategy is a user's manual for the best years of your life.

"This book brings us good news: the more we use our brains, the more likely we need not retire." — James Watson, Ph.D., winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine

"I learned the hard way about the validity of the brain-body connection. The Longevity Strategy will make it a great deal easier for you to learn just what it means, too."—Mike Wallace

"Superb . . . chock full of practical scientific knowledge that can help one become and stay healthy, wealthy, and wise."—Bart Kosko, Ph.D., author of Fuzzy Thinking

"Intelligent, witty, and informative."—Leon Cooper, Ph.D., winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics

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Mahoney, a business figure and the nation's foremost layman involved in brain research, and Restak, a neurologist and neuropsychiatrist, show how to take advantage of the connection between the brain and the body to lead a longer, better life. They explain the importance of handling stress, lifelong mental activity, social connections, physical activity, and optimism in longevity, and present a life plan for achieving a sound mind and body, a social support system, and financial security. Includes a foreword by William Safire, columnist for the . Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Overcoming the Legacy of Overeating: How to Change Your Negative Eating Patterns

Author: Nan Kathryn Fuchs

Examines the link between negative eating patterns and the bond between mother and daughter. Fuchs addresses the relationship between the emotional and physiological reasons for overeating, including biochemical components that may be responsible for depression and food cravings. This updated edition contains new information on genetic, metabolic, and environmental factors that can contribute to the cycle of overeating and offers meal plans and affirmations to combat it.

Nan Kathryn Fuchs, Ph.D., is the author of The Nutrition Detective.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword	ix
	Why a Nutritionist? And why this Nutritionist?	xi
	Acknowledgments	xvii
	Introduction	xix
Part 1	Generations of Pain	1
1.	From Mother to Child to Grandchild: How It Began and How It Can End	3
2.	First Things First: Affirmations, Visualization, Meditation, and Exercise	17
Part 2	In the Beginning--and the End--Was Food	33
3.	Food as Love	37
4.	Food as Attention and Approval	41
5.	Feeding Others as Camouflage	47
6.	Food Replaces Feelings	51
7.	Food as Reward or Punishment	57
8.	Food as Power Struggle	65
9.	Food: The Mother Who's Not There, or Never Was	71
Part 3	Emotional Answers to Emotional Problems	79
10.	Learning the Meaning of Hunger: The Solution to Eating Constantly	81
11.	Learning to Plan Ahead: The Solution to Procrastinating	89
12.	Learning a "Better Than" Approach: The Solution to Being a Perfectionist	97
13.	Learning to Pace Yourself: The Solution to Eating for the Past or Future	109
14.	Learning How to Make Choices: The Solution to Being Overdisciplined	117
15.	Finding Security Within Yourself: The Solution to Feeling Lonely or Abandoned	125
16.	Learning to Enjoy Yourself: The Solution to Being Bored	131
17.	Learning to Express Yourself: The Solution to Swallowing Anger and Other Emotions	137
Part 4	Physiological Answers to Physiological Problems	143
18.	Feeling Satisfied with Starches: The Amino-Acid Solution to Carbohydrate Bingeing	147
19.	Getting Unhooked from Sugar: Diets for Low Blood Sugar and Candida	161
20.	Overcoming Chocolate Cravings: The Magnesium Solution	181
21.	Eliminating Allergies and Food Sensitivities: The Rotation-Diet Solution to Food Cravings	189
22.	Alleviating Depression: Correcting Chemical Imbalances	199
Part 5	Your New Program	209
23.	Good Foods, Bad Foods	213
24.	How to Design Your Own Eating Plan	225
25.	How to Survive Holidays and Other Celebrations	233
26.	Supporting Yourself	247
27.	How Herbs and Nutritional Supplements Can Help	263
	Afterword	281
	Resources	285
	Index	297