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

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is a great book for those of us who are getting older. If you are like me, I've noticed my knees don't want to bend like they used to, I gain weight a lot easier than even just a few years ago, my eyes are getting worse and I can't eat like I used to. I need all the help I can get.

There are 6 parts to this book:
Are You Ready For Prime Time Health
Keeping Your Body At It's Prime
Prime time Well Being
Prime Time Health Care
The Prime Time Plan

Every page is filled with the information you need to get fit and stay healthy. There is a list of 16 superfoods:
Seafood(salmon is the best), Berries(blueberries are the best), Spinach, Nuts, Olive Oil, Broccoli, Oatmeal, Flaxseed, Avocados, Pomegranate Juice, Tomatoes, Tofu, Yogurt, Red Onions, Garlic, Beans and Lentils. There are only 3 of these that I seldom or rarely eat/drink and those are avocados, pomegranate juice and tofu. I'll be putting the first 2 on my weekly shopping list, but tofu....I don't think so!!
In the section Put Together Your Personal Eight-Week Prime Time Plan, the authors suggest you use post-it notes to flag the sections that relate to your own health concerns so that you can easily find them again. I loved this idea! I hate trying to find something again and this makes it so easy.

Under RX For Prime Time Stress Busting there were quite a few tips and a few of them are some of my favorite sayings, "If you can't change it, don't worry about it" and "Love & Laugh To Live Longer". I truly believe these are very important to live by.

I love books like this. The give step by step instructions on how to be the person you want to be. Even doing a few of the suggestion will improve your health. Most people don't start, or stay with a fitness program because it's so overwhelming. The key, at least for me, is to do it a few steps at a time, adding more changes as I go. This is another good book to add to your fitness/health library. I know I will refer back to it often.

"Prime-Time" is the authors' way of saying "senior" , "retirement age" or "baby-boomer." The book is a survey of what the reader can do now, to prepare for, or to live in, those older years. They talk about cardio-vascular health, and what you can do to improve it, as well as dental health, keeping the brain sharp, reversing bone loss, vision problems, tinnitus, reducing reliance on drugs, etc. Each chapter starts with an overview of the challenges faced by the body in that area, what causes problems, and how to prevent or ameliorate those problems.

The information is based on science, and the authors quote their sources. The tone of the book is breezy, with some of the flavor of "learn the secrets of the masters" - both more engaging and more sales-y than the standard impersonal tone found in fliers from your own doctor. I found myself setting the book down after the first three chapters, to go walk the dogs around the block. Dr. Sears had convinced me so well about the advantages of exercise for increasing vascular health that I felt I needed to get up and do something sensible, instead of just sitting in my chair reading the book. Then I came back and finished the book, and fixed an evening meal full of fresh vegetables. Their words put me in action.

Their main advice for many of the different problems boils down to eat nutritious foods (not junk food) and move your body. Those are the keys, but there are, of course, more detailed recommendations for each area of health. The back of the book has some specific food recommendations, based on nutrients, and some simple exercises.

The book is quite readable, with very little jargon and lots of clear explanations with snappy analogies. The advice is sound, and presented clearly. This is not the next diet book craze -- it is advice about lifestyle to preserve health. Highly recommended.

This is a great book that covers head-to-toe, inside-and-outside of how human body changes as we age. Based on scientific evidence, his own medical practice, and his own experience as cancer survivor, Dr. Sears, in a easy to understand and sometimes humorous way, presents a wealth of information as to what to do, what to eat, and how to do it so to live a healthy, happy life in prime-time as we age.

I couldn't put this book down when I was reading it. Though I have already maintain quite a healthy diet and exercise program for may years, I find that I can fine tune my ways based on the information that Dr. Sears shares in this book.

I highly recommend this book without any reservation.

Most of us have set up a plan for our retirement, whether a Roth IRA, a 403b, a 401k, or a traditional IRA. But most of us have not even heard of an IRAH, let alone set one up. Dr. Sears astutely created a new acronym for something all of us should have ... an Individual Retirement Account for Health, or an IRAH. What good is money for retirement if you don't have the body to enjoy it?

What is more important than how many years we live is the number of disability-free years we enjoy in reasonably good health. Do you ever go to Wal-Mart or your local grocery store and watch someone who appears to be under 40 riding around in a cart because they are too heavy to walk? This is a prime example of someone who is not planning for their prime time years. At my husband's veterinary office, we have one client (under 40) who cannot bring his own dog into the office from the parking lot and cannot work because of obesity. He isn't alone. Obesity and its related conditions and diseases are taking a toll, as are other common mistakes we make, all of which puts us at high risk for a shorter prime time.

Do you have a potbelly? Do less than two hours of moderate exercise weekly? Do you eat more animal-based foods than seafood and plant-based foods? Do you eat fast, large meals? Spend most of your time indoors or sitting? Answer yes to any of these questions? Want to live a long number of disability-free years? Then you need to consider buying this book.

Prime Time Health will teach you how to make health your hobby, covering everything from your mind to your joints, and your skin to your cholesterol. Worried about osteoporosis? The chapter, Build Better Bones, will file your worries away. Concerned about cancer? There's a chapter for that, Cut Your Chances of Getting Cancer. Fighting your weight, but don't know how to win the battle? There's a chapter for that too, called simply Stay Lean. It's not an elaborate "diet plan", but a down-to-earth chapter recommending a higher intake of "real" foods ... whole foods like fruits, vegetables, and grains. Sensible, easy to eat, and life lengthening.

I can't cover all Dr. Sear's tips in this review, but I can tell you this ... this is a book you must have to enhance your quality of life as you age. So don't just contribute to your IRA ... contribute to your IRAH so you can spend your retirement dollars on fun vacations instead of on your room in the nursing home.

Prime-Time Health is for anyone 40 years old and up, but it certainly speaks to a boomer like me. Dr. Sears takes the reader through the body's major systems and organs, explaining how each works, why it's important to our health, how these systems, such as the cardio-vascular system changes and is challenged as we age. He worked on this book for over 10 years, reviewing hundreds of scientific studies which he boils down in the most accessible language. His style is informative and entertaining; I laughed at times!

This book is most motivating health book I've ever read. Dr. Sears tells how you can improve each system or organ, i.e. great information about reversing bone loss, reducing hormones such as cortisol which is produced when we're stressed out or angry. I learned that as we age, our bodies cannot tolerate the level of stress they could when we were younger. That's a real wake-up call.


Best health book I've read, and now I can live longer and healthier. Buy it!

Now is the time to start paying more attention to your health. What better way to take charge than to get the advice of a medical doctor? Dr. Sears has come up with a program that covers you from head to toe and will help you live healthier and longer. Making a few simple changes can improve your quality of life as well as it's length.

I found this book to be very informative. There were times I had to put it down for a little bit because there was so much information to process.

Prime-Time Health, A Scientifically Proven Plan for Feeling Young and Living Longer by William Sears, MD with Martha Sears, RN has an 8-week healthy-aging program that will help prevent disease, sharpen thinking, boost energy and take charge of your health. According to Dr. Sears, the answer to the health care crisis is "self-care." It is directed to "prime-timers" (those in their 40-50's), but provides information for the young and old as well. By following his plan, you can cut your risks of cancer and the "highs"--high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high blood and sugar. In the end, he puts together an 8-week prime-time health plan.

Sound too good to be true? That is what I thought till I had the book in my hands. I was curious just what the doctor was going to tell me. Surprisingly, he said a lot of things that I have read here and there or heard from my nutritionist over the past few years and then some. He draws his information from clinical research that has been done over the years.

He describes how the body changes over time and how to prevent disease and help each body system. He discuses various foods that can help your body to function as it should and the need for exercise to stay lean and healthy. He tells you about the 16 "superfoods" you should have in your diet.

This book is now my absolute favorite health book. I say it is my health "bible." Every thing you need to know about getting or staying healthy is in this book. I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to stay young as they get old.

I was provided a copy of this book for review from the Hachette Book Group.

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!

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

This is a great reference book on healthy aging. Lots of good information really for any age. I have this book in my home library and bought it for my parents. All aspects of health is covered in this book. I give it an A++.