Do some foods accelerate aging and others reverse it? Science says yes! Dr. Michael Roizen, whose number one bestseller RealAge showed Americans how to reverse aging by changing their lifestyle choices, and Dr. John La Puma have developed an authoritative antiaging diet plan that will help you live life to your youngest. The RealAge Diet examines the food-related factors that multiple studies have indicated can cause you to age faster than you should. Just as in RealAge, there is a groundbreaking test to discover how your eating habits affect your RealAge. Once you know your biological age, you can make yourself younger by trying some of the fifty-one food choices and strategies that are age busters. Whether you are eating in or eating out, you will find simple guidelines that make age reduction easy. Cooking tips, two weeks of meals you can prepare in ten minutes or less, and twenty fabulous recipes make your RealAge younger with every bite. And with the easy-to-follow "Hourglass" diet, you'll have a handy visual reminder of what you can do to make aging stand still and to keep young longer. Drs. Roizen and La Puma start with the simple premise "If it doesn't taste good, don't eat it." The RealAge Diet examines the principles of sensible weight loss and weight management. The authors evaluate the bestseller diets and show you which help you lose weight and which cause needless aging. Even better, they tell you how to modify the bestseller diets to make them more age-reducing. This is not another diet book: if there is one thing you will learn from this book, it is that if you eat foods that are high in nutrients and low in calories, your body is going to be healthier and younger than you ever dreamed possible.

Food Can Make You Younger! Dr. Michael Roizen presents his program for eating the RealAge way: a diet that is good for your overall health, plus works to delay or even reverse aging. If there's one thing you will learn from this book, it's that no matter who you are, if you eat foods that are high in nutrients and low in calories you will be on the road to renewed health and vitality.The RealAge Diet Shows You How To: Use foods to regain the energy of your youth Eat nutritiously while still enjoying delicious food choices Choose the right vitamins and supplements to keep you young Modify various popular weight-loss diets to maximize their age-reducing benefits Read between the lines of restaurant menus to find the most healthful options Make your RealAge younger with every bite

"This guide reveals how to use food to enhance our personal and professional lives--and increase longevity to boot"--

What is aging? Aging is not a mysterious metaphysical phenomenon. Aging happens in the particulars. Your arteries become clogged. Your arthritis flares up. Age is not just a chronological measurement; it's the rate at which the primary internal guardians of health--your cardiovascular and immune systems--decline. While your chronological age is fixed, your biological age may be years older--or younger--depending on a combination of factors. RealAge offers a revolutionary, systematic program that calculates the aging effect of more than 100 different health behaviors--ranging from diet and medication to stress control and chronic smoking--and enables you to assess your own biological age. Most important, it shows you how to design a specific path to improving or reversing your own aging trajectory. Developed by Dr. Michael F. Roizen, chair of anesthesia and critical care at the University of Chicago and preventive gerontologist, along with four other scientists, the RealAge program is based on cutting-edge scientific research. Dr. Roizen and his team have pored over 25,000 medical studies, evaluating what they tell us about aging and what they tell us about the prevention of aging.In RealAge, they present the complete results of their analysis for the first time. Each chapter covers a broad health topic--for example, how the right vitamins and supplements, exercise, or diet can be used to control how your genes affect you--and calculates the RealAge advantage you will gain by adopting a specific behavior. Charts, fact sheets, and tests give you specific choices to make and describe benefits to be gained so you can measure your success. Suggested behavior changes are rated in order of difficulty so you can decide whether the result is worth the effort. Ultimately, this program is about maintaining your health. The better condition you are in, the better prepared you will be to fight the factors that age you. RealAge demonstrates that you can have more control over the aging process. It makes science simple and its promise is irresistible: You may live as young at seventy as you did at forty-four. Remeber your high school reunion? Even though everyone was the same chronological age, people no longer looked the same. Some wore the years well, staying young and exuberant despite the passage of time, whereas others looked as if they had aged ten years more than everyone else--and probably had. Did you know that: Financial stress can make your RealAge two to thirty-two years older? The difference between having the ideal blood pressure 115/76--and high blood pressure--higher than 140/90--can make a RealAge difference of more than twenty years? A tablet of aspirin a day can make your RealAge 1.9 years younger? Flossing daily and seeing a dentist and dental hygienist every six months can make your RealAge 6.4 years younger? In RealAge you will discover many other easy-to-institute Age Reduction Strategies that will enable you to live longer and younger.

Integrating nutritional science with culinary expertise, a physician explains how to prevent disease, shed pounds, and promote overall health by using foods that tempt the palate while promoting the body's immunity.

"A cookbook that puts into effect a strategic eating plan developed by the authors to help promote healthier living, disease prevention, better performance and a longer life"--