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Work InformationThe Big Five: Five Simple Things You Can Do to Live a Longer, Healthier Life by Sanjiv Chopra
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. The Big 5 is chock full of statistics and research summaries to support the benefits of five simple things you can do to live a longer, healthier life. The author explains mountains of evidence with real life data regarding the benefits of coffee, vitamin D, exercise, nuts, and meditation. Each section of the book details how use of item will lower maladies such as type 2 diabetes, depression, obesity, cancers, cholesterol, and heart attacks. The reader will be inspired to make life changes in order to gain the benefits. Coffee has a positive effect on cognitive function and reduces chances of dementia. Meditation changes the brain and makes people “feel better”. “I often advise patients and friends to heed the following advice. On a nice sunny day, take a short, brisk walk to your favorite java shop. Enjoy the coffee, and if you’re going to have a bite to eat, you might as well partake of a handful of nuts. You have now exercised, manufactured some vitamin D from the sun, and had some coffee and nuts. It is that simple!” Sign me up! ( ) no reviews | add a review
Few books can make the promise of this one: if you adapt these five simple, virtually-free suggestions you will live a longer and healthier life, guaranteed. Presented by a trusted expert, The Big Five includes easily digestible data and startling results from real studies conducted by reputable universities and involving thousands of subjects. Readers can see for themselves that, without a doubt, these five simple actions offer many more proven benefits than the latest expensive supplements, fad diets, jazzy exercise programs, and state-of-the-art gym equipment. No library descriptions found. |
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