Fit at Fifty and Beyond: A Balanced Exercise and Nutrition Program (A DiaMedica Guide to Optimum Wellness)

by F. Michael Gloth III

Members	Reviews	Popularity	Average rating	Mentions
36	22	685,591	(3.29)	7
Health & Fitness. Nonfiction. HTML: Our metabolism changes as we move from young adulthood into our fifties and beyond, and we need to change our approach to nutrition and exercise as a result. Many of us wonder What happened?�??without changing our eating habits, we �??suddenly" find ourselves both overweight and physically unable to do things that seemed easy just a few years ago. For most people, the natural changes associated with aging, along with a less active lifestyle, have led to increased weight and a loss of physical conditioning. Fit at Fifty and Beyond combines the authors' expertise in aging and nutrition to provide practical suggestions for eating and exercise, and will help readers to look and feel better as the years go by. It provides basic information on how to avoid some of the effects that age can have on weight and fitness, and provides a basic �??game plan" for getting into shape and staying that way. By using and applying this information as early as possible, it will prevent these changes from occurring in the first place. If people continue to eat the same type and amounts of food as you get older, without increasing their activity level, they will gain weight, and they will gain it mainly as fat. A basic premise of this book is that preventing this process from occurring does not simply mean eating less and exercising more. Understanding some of the changes associated with aging will allow readers to reach their ideal body weight with relatively little change in the amount you eat or the total amount of exercise or activity you do. By learning about the changes that occur as they grow older, they will find it easier to improve their health, well-being, and general overall appearance. Beginning with a discussion of how evolution made it possible for us to store energy efficiently �?? which translates into weight gain as we age, the authors provide a strategy for eating and exercising wisely �?? not just more. Each chapter provides sample recipes that translate the guidelines into healthy and delicious meals. The emphasis in the sections on exercise is choosing an exercise program �?? and sticking to it �?? that fits each individual's personality and the activities they enjoy. Chapters deal with the inevitable lapses in both nutrition and exercise, as well as issues that affect people with medical conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, a… (more)

all members

▾Members

Recently added by

AnitaRS, prestontest, PMedicalLibrary, sandijo, dpbrewster, LeHack, janoorani24, kurvanas

▾Tags

▾LibraryThing Recommendations

▾Member recommendations

00
Fitness for Life Manual by Matt Roberts (janoorani24)

▾Lists

None

▾Will you like it?

▾Conversations (About links)

No current Talk conversations about this book.

» See also 7 mentions

▾Member reviews

date ▼ | votes

Showing 1-5 of 23 (next | show all)

This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.

I don't have much experience reviewing a book like this and I am certainly not an expert on exercise, diet or health so this review should be taken as a personal opinion only. Overall I found the book to be a balanced, complete, and safe program especially for the 50 and over set. There are several recipes which I haven't tried, but sound delicious. The data is well researched and the exercise program well planned. There are many photos, graphs and charts to simplify understanding. A good effort. (

)

Kirconnell | Apr 2, 2010 |

This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.

"Fit at 50" isn't a thick volume, but it does a good job of concisely giving you the facts you need. The author talks about how different foods are metabolized by the body, how to exercise, how to diet and recipes by an award winning chef sprinkled throughout - I tried the Spicy Grilled Shrimp and they were very tasty. There is also a section on "falling off the wagon" that is a good reminder that we need to plan for that to happen, get over it, and move past it.

Getting very close to 50 myself and having more than a few extra pounds that need to go, I was looking forward to this book. If you're facing fifty or more and haven't kept up to date on exercise and diet facts, this is a great volume to start with.

I didn't find very much that was new (and it's tough to package motivation to
exercise in a book), but it was a great reminder of the basics. It will serve you
well past your fifties.

wdavidlewis | Oct 26, 2009 |

This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.

The book doesn't break any new ground, but it is a very sensible and useful book for its intended audience. Certainly at the age of 50+, the goals are different than those who are still in their 20s and 30s, and the book is useful in identifying and recognizing the differences. The book ably describes the changes that the body goes through as it ages and suggests ways to help mitigate some of those effects. The discussion of metabolism was both interesting and helpful. The importance of tone and stretching was also useful. The recognition that exercise is not a one size fits all is properly reconized and considered. (

)

dpbrewster | Sep 28, 2009 |

This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.

There are a few good tips buried here, but the organization of the book is so scattershot it took a lot of effort to find them. And for such a short book, there’s an awful lot of repetition. When the authors actually present a useful idea, such as the importance of effective calories, it’s repeated over and over again.

The constant bouncing back and forth between sections focusing on diet on those on exercise is confusing, and adds to the uncertain focus of the book. From the title of the book and the cover illustrations (which primarily feature people exercising), one would think it would be focused primarily on exercise, but there is actually much more emphasis on diet—which I guess is to be expected having been written by a nutrition expert and a chef. And despite the authors’ own admonition that the book “is not intended to be a cookbook,” nearly a quarter of the book is nothing but recipes (39 of 168 pages)!

What little information there is about exercise is glossed over in a fairly perfunctory fashion. For instance, there’s brief mention of the fact that it takes longer for older people to recover their fitness level after even a brief layoff, but the idea is dropped without any clear explanation of why that is, and little emphasis on the steps and precautions that need to be taken to avoid injuries during exercise in the first place. The longest section that is devoted solely to exercise consists mainly of an inordinate proportion of photographs of people modeling standard exercises (sit-ups, push ups, chin ups, curls, etc.), all of which most people should be pretty familiar with in the first place, and very little associated elaboration and analysis of how each exercise might be best performed in conjunction with a comprehensive exercise program.

There’s an unusual amount of detail provided regarding caloric intake, food and drug interactions, and other dietary considerations, but really short shrift given to developing a useful exercise program and the need for altering that exercise regimen as you get older. And a lot of the nutritional information is presented in a manner that skates close to the boundary between something accessible to a layperson and something intended for publication in an academic journal. (

)

bcooper | Aug 2, 2009 |

This is a basic book. If I didn't exercise, needed to get in shape, lose 50 lbs, and didn't know where to start, this would be a great book. I do exercise, eat healthy and don't need to lose weight, so I felt the book was a little too simplistic for my interest. (

)

LeHack | Jul 15, 2009 |

date ▼ | votes

Showing 1-5 of 23 (next | show all)

▾Published reviews

no reviews | add a review

▾Other authors

» Add other authors

▾Series and work relationships

▾Awards and Honors

Awards

International Book Awards (Winner – Health: Diet & Weight Loss – 2011)

International Book Awards (Finalist – Health: Aging/50+ – 2011)

view history

▾Common Knowledge

You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.

For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.

Canonical title

Original title

Alternative titles

Original publication date

People/Characters

Important places

Important events

Related movies

Epigraph

Dedication

First words

Quotations

Last words

Disambiguation notice

Publisher's editors

Blurbers

Haley, Olivia

Original language

Canonical DDC/MDS

Canonical LCC

▾References

References to this work on external resources.

Wikipedia in English

None

▾Book descriptions

Health & Fitness. Nonfiction. HTML:

Our metabolism changes as we move from young adulthood into our fifties and beyond, and we need to change our approach to nutrition and exercise as a result. Many of us wonder What happened?�??without changing our eating habits, we �??suddenly" find ourselves both overweight and physically unable to do things that seemed easy just a few years ago. For most people, the natural changes associated with aging, along with a less active lifestyle, have led to increased weight and a loss of physical conditioning.
Fit at Fifty and Beyond combines the authors' expertise in aging and nutrition to provide practical suggestions for eating and exercise, and will help readers to look and feel better as the years go by. It provides basic information on how to avoid some of the effects that age can have on weight and fitness, and provides a basic �??game plan" for getting into shape and staying that way. By using and applying this information as early as possible, it will prevent these changes from occurring in the first place.
If people continue to eat the same type and amounts of food as you get older, without increasing their activity level, they will gain weight, and they will gain it mainly as fat. A basic premise of this book is that preventing this process from occurring does not simply mean eating less and exercising more.
Understanding some of the changes associated with aging will allow readers to reach their ideal body weight with relatively little change in the amount you eat or the total amount of exercise or activity you do. By learning about the changes that occur as they grow older, they will find it easier to improve their health, well-being, and general overall appearance.
Beginning with a discussion of how evolution made it possible for us to store energy efficiently �?? which translates into weight gain as we age, the authors provide a strategy for eating and exercising wisely �?? not just more. Each chapter provides sample recipes that translate the guidelines into healthy and delicious meals. The emphasis in the sections on exercise is choosing an exercise program �?? and sticking to it �?? that fits each individual's personality and the activities they enjoy. Chapters deal with the inevitable lapses in both nutrition and exercise, as well as issues that affect people with medical conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, a

▾Library descriptions

No library descriptions found.

▾LibraryThing members' description

Book description

Haiku summary