Prime-Time Health: A Scientifically Proven Plan for Feeling Young and Living Longer

Good book to get an understanding of how the body works and fails with how we treat it. And how, with knowledge, to have confidence about life over 50

There are many health books around but certain books deserve more hype than others. "Prime-Time Health" being one of them. An easy to read, fact filled from A to Z. Dr. Sears covers many great facts that are on everyone's mind when it comes to health.This book covers anything from Heart Disease, to reversing bone loss, to losing weight and staying fit. Topics are endless and easily understood. Prime-Time Health explores new thinking and old thinking of Health today. Dr. Sears also provides an "8-week healthy-aging" program that will help you boost your health and energy. Today everyone wants to feel younger and live longer and Dr.Sears tells you just how to do that. Dr. Sears implements the "LEAN" (Lifestyle, Exercise, Attitude and Nutrition) method which this book goes by. With this book you will have a better understanding of where fat comes from, and how to get rid of it, how blood pressure and blood sugars work, and how to prevent diseases. Whether you're 5 or 70, there's enough information for all the age groups. Reduce your stress and sharpen your thinking with these great tips.Work your gut and build your bones, the descriptive images and explanations let you do just that. You don't have to worry about terminology as this book is simple to understand by everyone. Publishers' Weekly states "Prime-Time Health" is "Amusing, encouraging, and easy-to-remember prescriptive mnemonics and slogans enliven a lucid, personal and professional narrative. Sears provides what similar books often lack-an honest and trusted voice plus the latest medical science in a comprehensive, accessible program that is hard to resist

Direct and easy to read; love this book. Has simple to look up lists and sections, making it easy to find what you want and use the info. Agree with most of what he says; like eating clean and getting weight and cardio into our day. Also, the lists are direct and even though most of this is common sense, it's good to see it in print, paste it up on the fridge, and follow it. Since reading this book I have gone more plant based in my eating and buy organic, hormone free and anything that shouldn't be in my food I pass on. Just got a great blood work back from my Primary who inquired what am I doing differently. My lab work came back with numbers like a teenager. Low sugar, cholesterol, and blood pressure. Very encouraging for someone over 65. Oh yeah!

I have read many self-help books on dieting or health in general and this is the best. I would describe it as having unlimited access to a doctor who not only is knowlegeable but is an ideal communicator. The writing includes a wealth of material on every aspect of maintaining health as you age, all science-based. The emphasis is on proactive things the reader can do to improve your probablities of living well and as long as possible, with emphasis on the former. The book does not fall into the trap of so many self-help books of claiming some "magic bullet" cure for all your problems. It is clear that the author has spent many years giving commonsense advice to thousands of patients. Though there are no false claims, I felt excited reading the book because I thought the advice was so rooted in the best up-to-date knowledge available. It made sense to me.Best of all, you can't lose by following the advice given. If you eat "real food" and improve your body chemistry, resulting in a better future for your heart and digestion, you are likely to lose weight. Everything in the book seems interrelated in this way, exercise, diet, sleep, etc., etc. If dieting is your goal and you have a week where the numbers don't go down on the scale, you still feel OK knowing that you helped yourself in a variety of meaningful ways through the lifestyle changes. I've been slowly and steadily losing weight, slightly less than a pound a week, but I feel better every week, almost every day. The book shifted the emphasis for me from the bathroom scale as an exclusive measure of how I'm doing to a much broader view of health, though there is plenty of motivation to get rid of extra weight, especially around the belly. The writing would be extraordinarily good for those lucky people who are at their ideal weight as well. The writing is particularly good for its targeted people 60 and above, but I personally feel it is a gold mine for everyone!

I read this book on my wife's recommendation and encouragement. I have read a lot of books on diet and fitness, this is the best book I have ever read. The key for me is the IBODS description for people like me that have chronic inflammation that hurts my joints. muscles and body pains. I use his insights to get healthy, lose weight and get fit to rid myself of the inflammation and pain. This is a life saver because I was going down the road to prescription drugs and old early aging. Great book, you have to get and read.