Younger Next Year for Women [Paperback]

Crowley and Lodge rework their bestselling Younger Next Year (which targeted men) to address health and aging concerns for women. Former attorney Crowley's chatty voice alternates with internist-gerontologist Lodge's straightforward medical perspective. The authors promise that major lifestyle changes, including a six-days-a-week exercise regime, and a positive view of aging will make the "next third" of life—the stage after menopause—the most fulfilling. Because women live longer, are highly motivated for change and fear aging less than men do, the authors contend, they will reap great benefits from the program. Crowley and Lodge put their own spin on commonsense health essentials, with Lodge adding information on the latest antiaging breakthroughs. A variety of activities (biking, skiing, sailing, yoga) will likely make the intensive exercise plan more enjoyable. Although there is little new material, women may find the 71-year-old Crowley's cheerleading appealing—the old buddy tone of the previous edition is exchanged for that of a male "girlfriend"—and a great motivator not only for making lifestyle changes but for equating health with how one feels, not how one looks. (Jan.)
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A must-read for women...Dr. Lodge and Mr. Crowley offer a very clear choice: Do you want the thirty years after menopause to be good years or not? And then they explain exactly how to achieve the better option.This is an excellent book, motivating, good-natured and honest. Laura L. Forese, M.D., M.P.H., Chief Medical Officer, New YorkPresbyterian Hospital

Co-written by one of the country's most prominent internists, Dr. Henry Harry Lodge, and his star patient, the 73-year-old Chris Crowley, Younger Next Year for Women is a book of hope, a guide to aging without fear or anxiety. This is a book of hope, a guide to aging without fear or anxiety. Using the same inspired structure of alternating voices, Chris and Harry have recast material specifically for women, who already live longer and take better care of themselves than men. New material covers menopause and post-menopause, as well as cardiac disease, osteoporosis, sexuality, and more. This is the book that can show us how to turn back our biological clockshow to put off 70% of the normal problems of aging (weakness, sore joints, bad balance) and eliminate 50% of serious illness and injury. The key to the program is found in Harry's Rules: Exercise six days a week. Don't eat crap. Connect and commit to others. There are seven rules all together, based on the latest findings in cell physiology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, and experimental psychology. Dr. Lodge explains how and why they workand Chris Crowley, who is living proof of their effectiveness (skiing better today, for example, than he did twenty years ago), gives the just-as-essential motivation. Both men and women can become functionally younger every year for the next five to ten years, then continue to live with newfound vitality and pleasure deep into our 80s and beyond.

Now, a womens edition. A New York Times bestseller with 115,000 copies in print in hardcover, Younger Next Year is the breakthrough program for men to turn back their biological clocks and live healthier, more active lives into their 80s and beyond. Experts believed, the press raved: An extraordinary book. It is easy to read and the science is right. K. Craig Kent, M.D., chief of vascular surgery, New YorkPresbyterian Hospital Brain-rattling, irresistible, hilarious . . . it could change your life.Washington Post But the fact is that women have even more to gain from Younger Next Year. Just as the average woman lives longer (three decades past menopause) than the average man, the average woman has more anxiety about aging. Younger Next Year for Women is a book of hope. Though keeping the same lively, alternating voicesChris Crowleys rough-and-ready passion for the cause, Harry Lodges cool, convincing sciencethe book is recast to bring its revolutionary findings about staving off 70% of the normal decay associated with aging specifically to women. It covers menopause and postmenopause at length, cardiac disease, osteoporosis, sexuality, even finances. It adapts its simple, lifesaving motivational rulesExercise Six Days a Week, Dont Eat Crap, Connect to Other Peopleto contemporary womens lifestyles. And brings to its message a refreshing bluntness that says yes, you have come a long way, and youve got a longer way to go. Now enjoy it for all its worth. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Smart women don't grow older. They grow younger. A book of hope, Younger Next Year for Women shows you how to become functionally younger for the next five to ten years, and continue to live thereafter with newfound vitality. How to avoid 70 percent of the normal problems of aging and eliminate 50 percent of illness and injury. And how to live brilliantly for the three decades or more after menopause. The key is found in Harry's Rules, a program of exercise, diet, and maintaining emotional connections that will be natural for you, as a woman, to implement. And the results will be amazing.

Chris Crowley, 73, is a former litigator (Davis Polk Wardwell) who retired in 1990 to ski, sail, bike, play tennis, cook, write these books, and take his passion for them on the road.

Henry S. Lodge, M.D., 49, a board-certified internist, is listed variously as One of the Best Doctors in New York/America/the World. He heads a 23-doctor practice in Manhattan and is a member of the clinical faculty at Columbia Medical School. Both authors are contributing experts to HealthCentral.com. They live in New York City.

Chapter One: The Next Fourty Years Okay, youre a terrific woman, maybe in your late forties, maybe your early sixties, and your life has gone pretty well. You have good energy, decent gifts, and right now you seem to be heading into a particularly nice stretch. The kids are getting big or are gone. Old Fred, if hes around, is taking care of himself, and the relationship is taking some nice turns, getting a little calmer. For some reason menopause or whateveryou feel as if its time, at rather long last, to look after yourself and your own, serious business. Time to take your own affairs, your own life, your own needs in hand and do something. Maybe something pretty big. Theres a lovely quote from Isak Dinesen that goes, Women, when they are old enough to have done with the business of being women, and can let loose their strength, may be the most powerful creatures in the world. You may feel that youre never going to be done with the business of being a womanmaybe you dont want to bebut you know what she means and you know that its true. And nice. Very nice. Harry (thats Henry S. Lodge, M.D., my doctor, coauthor and close pal) and I have been picking away at this project for several years now, and we have talked to an awful lot of women your age and older. We have come to realize just how right Isak Dinesen may be. Unlike men, who are often getting a little shaky as they approach their sixties or retirement age, many women are feeling more independent, more optimistic, more powerful. Freed from lots of the caregiving, perhaps some girlish posturing and other stuff that Dinesen may have had in mind, they are liberated to look at other, possibly larger issues. Such as themselves. Not out of selfishness, or narcissism, but out of interest. Theyre not going to shove Old Fred out of the boat, you know, but theyre not going to lose track of themselves anymore, either. I spend a lot of my time with womenespecially able and ambitious onesand I see it and hear about it all the time. It is exhilarating, it is striking, and it is very different from what we hear from men. Men may be at the actual height of their careers and powers, but theyre uneasy, too . . . starting to worry about whats going to become of them next, when they hit sixty, or retirement. When they no longer have the lifelong robes of Office, Job and Position in which to wrap and comfort and define themselves. Theyre starting to wonder, ever so slightly, just who the hell they are under that blanket. Or who theyre going to be in the Next Third of their lives when they have to take it off and hand it to someone else. All generalizations are flawed, but women seem to see the situation differently. For one thing, few women have the luxury of wearing one lifelong robe. They slip into one role after another, juggling and doing the best they can. Few have the time to fall in love with themselves as the Great This or the Important That. And so, after whatever detours life has thrown thei --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Are you tired of the aches and pains that come with getting older? Do you wonder what the years after 45 have in store for you? Crowley and Lodge have the answers and the rules. Exercise, good eating, friendships, and passion are the keys to wellness. Norman Dietz portrays Crowley, a 70-something retired lawyer who bikes, hikes, skis, and flirts with the ladies. Richard Harries is Doctor Lodge, who explains the medicine and science, and encourages listeners to follow his rules. Dietz/Crowley is charismatic, and his stories will leave you alternately laughing and crying. Harries/Lodge will leave you thoughtful. This audiobook will make you get out of the car and walk or bike with your portable CD player. M.B.K. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.