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The Okinawa Way: How to Improve Your Health and Longevity Dramatically
 
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The Okinawa Way: How to Improve Your Health and Longevity Dramatically (Paperback)
by Andrew Weil (Foreword), Bradley J. Willcox (Author), Makoto Suzuki (Author), Craig D. Willcox (Author)
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  • Paperback: 496 pages
  • Publisher: Mermaid Books (19 Jun 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0718144945
  • ISBN-13: 978-0718144944
  • Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 14.8 x 4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 110,119 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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If ever there were a prescription for longevity, the people of Okinawa, a collection of islands strung between Japan and Taiwan, have found it. In The Okinawa Way, Bradley J Willcox, Craig Willcox and Makoto Suzuki reveal the islanders' age-defying secrets. Considered the world's healthiest people, residents of this tropical archipelago routinely live active, independent lives well into their 90s and 100s. Their rates of obesity, heart disease, osteoporosis, memory loss, menopause and breast, colon and prostate cancer rank far below the rates for these illnesses in the UK and other industrialised countries. In fact, researchers believe many Okinawans are physically younger than their chronological ages. In essence, the Okinawans have found a way to beat the clock.

How do they do it? Of course, there are really no surprises here: a low-fat diet, exercise, stress management, strong social and family ties and spiritual connectedness--the same things experts have been recommending for years--all play key roles in keeping the Okinawans youthful. But in this fascinating read, which is peppered with inspiring anecdotes about these remarkable people, the authors provide concrete evidence that adopting these healthy habits pays off significantly in terms of tacking more productive years onto our lives.

Based on the authors' 25-year Okinawa Centenarian Study, this extraordinarily well-written book demonstrates that genetics provide only so much protection against disease. Indeed, the authors often remind us that when younger Okinawans pick up Western habits, their rates of obesity, illness and life expectancy start to match ours as well. Clearly, when it comes to longevity, healthy lifestyle habits will out. That said, the major message of The Okinawa Wayis that we can easily adopt the life-lengthening strategies that have served the Okinawans so well for generations. To that end, the authors pack chapters with suggestions for following "The Way", from eating a low-fat, low-calorie diet packed with fibre and complex carbohydrates (cooking up the book's more than 80 recipes is a start) and learning tai chi to finding time to meditate and relax, developing one's spirituality, doing volunteer work and building a solid network of friends and family. Rounding out the book, the authors pull their key recommendations into a comprehensive yet doable four-week plan that's meant to get you started. Following "The Way" isn't a free shot at immortality but it certainly helps stack the deck in your favour. --Norine Dworkin

Publishers Weekly, April 2, 2000
"The outcome of years of extensive medical research, this book offers a practical and optimistic vision of growing old."

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