A concise and straightforward guide to living better as well as longer.
Personal trainer and bodybuilder Young shares his advice on how to approach life as one grows older.
The science is clear that a sedentary lifestyle isn’t a healthy one, and according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only a small percentage of Americans over 65 get the recommended amount of physical activity for their age group. As a baby boomer, Young knows that he and his peers have a longer life expectancy than their parents or grandparents. He also understands that his generation is determined to stay youthful, whether that means using a moisturizer every day or getting a hip replacement. With this book, he effectively shares what he’s learned about staying active and vital as a senior. He assures readers that they’re never too old to change and that fit bodies come in a variety of shapes and sizes. In two sections on food, Young urges readers to forgo fad diets in favor of a healthful eating plan that’s sustainable while also emphasizing that different people have different nutritional needs that change as people age. The book goes beyond physical fitness to address mental and emotional health as well; for instance, it suggests that identifying one’s core values and putting one’s actions in alignment with them will increase one’s quality of life, noting that “the relationships you have … might be preventing you from achieving your goals or supporting your voyage.” Over the course of the book, Young, who wrote this book with Kushner, displays a friendly, engaging, and clear writing style, and he generously offers anecdotes from his own life to illustrate the principles he lays out in the text. The author also entreats his peers to surround themselves with people who’ll support them on their journey—an especially useful suggestion given how many older people grapple with loneliness. He includes QR codes that take readers to intriguing bonus content; these include a video about Sister Madonna Buder, a Catholic nun who finished her 390th Ironman Triathlon competition at the age of 89.
A concise and straightforward guide to living better as well as longer.Pub Date: N/A
ISBN: 9781039150539
Page Count: 89
Publisher: FriesenPress
Review Posted Online: June 14, 2023
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
The lessons to draw are obvious: Smoke more dope, eat less meat. Like-minded readers will dig it.
The chef, rapper, and TV host serves up a blustery memoir with lashings of self-help.
“I’ve always had a sick confidence,” writes Bronson, ne Ariyan Arslani. The confidence, he adds, comes from numerous sources: being a New Yorker, and more specifically a New Yorker from Queens; being “short and fucking husky” and still game for a standoff on the basketball court; having strength, stamina, and seemingly no fear. All these things serve him well in the rough-and-tumble youth he describes, all stickball and steroids. Yet another confidence-builder: In the big city, you’ve got to sink or swim. “No one is just accepted—you have to fucking show that you’re able to roll,” he writes. In a narrative steeped in language that would make Lenny Bruce blush, Bronson recounts his sentimental education, schooled by immigrant Italian and Albanian family members and the mean streets, building habits good and bad. The virtue of those habits will depend on your take on modern mores. Bronson writes, for example, of “getting my dick pierced” down in the West Village, then grabbing a pizza and smoking weed. “I always smoke weed freely, always have and always will,” he writes. “I’ll just light a blunt anywhere.” Though he’s gone through the classic experiences of the latter-day stoner, flunking out and getting arrested numerous times, Bronson is a hard charger who’s not afraid to face nearly any challenge—especially, given his physique and genes, the necessity of losing weight: “If you’re husky, you’re always dieting in your mind,” he writes. Though vulgar and boastful, Bronson serves up a model that has plenty of good points, including his growing interest in nature, creativity, and the desire to “leave a legacy for everybody.”
The lessons to draw are obvious: Smoke more dope, eat less meat. Like-minded readers will dig it.Pub Date: April 20, 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4197-4478-5
Page Count: 184
Publisher: Abrams
Review Posted Online: May 5, 2021
Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 1, 2021
Skloot's meticulous, riveting account strikes a humanistic balance between sociological history, venerable portraiture and...
A dense, absorbing investigation into the medical community's exploitation of a dying woman and her family's struggle to salvage truth and dignity decades later.
In a well-paced, vibrant narrative, Popular Science contributor and Culture Dish blogger Skloot (Creative Writing/Univ. of Memphis) demonstrates that for every human cell put under a microscope, a complex life story is inexorably attached, to which doctors, researchers and laboratories have often been woefully insensitive and unaccountable. In 1951, Henrietta Lacks, an African-American mother of five, was diagnosed with what proved to be a fatal form of cervical cancer. At Johns Hopkins, the doctors harvested cells from her cervix without her permission and distributed them to labs around the globe, where they were multiplied and used for a diverse array of treatments. Known as HeLa cells, they became one of the world's most ubiquitous sources for medical research of everything from hormones, steroids and vitamins to gene mapping, in vitro fertilization, even the polio vaccine—all without the knowledge, must less consent, of the Lacks family. Skloot spent a decade interviewing every relative of Lacks she could find, excavating difficult memories and long-simmering outrage that had lay dormant since their loved one's sorrowful demise. Equal parts intimate biography and brutal clinical reportage, Skloot's graceful narrative adeptly navigates the wrenching Lack family recollections and the sobering, overarching realities of poverty and pre–civil-rights racism. The author's style is matched by a methodical scientific rigor and manifest expertise in the field.
Skloot's meticulous, riveting account strikes a humanistic balance between sociological history, venerable portraiture and Petri dish politics.Pub Date: Feb. 9, 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4000-5217-2
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Crown
Review Posted Online: Dec. 22, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1, 2010
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