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Lifelong Health: Achieving Optimum Well-Being at Any Age

By: Anthony A. Goodman, The Great Courses
Narrated by: Anthony A. Goodman
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Summary

We all want to discover the secret to a long and healthy life. But how do you incorporate the secrets of personal wellness into the unique demands of your own schedule? What information would a knowledgeable and compassionate family physician offer someone looking for a reference guide to healthy living?

These 36 comprehensive lectures offer you practical and expert advice that allows you to make your own personalized choices about healthy living, as well as ways to apply that knowledge to your lifestyle. With this course, you'll nourish your body, strengthen your mind, and forever change the way you think about and live your life. Professor Goodman teaches you about the six fundamentals of personal well-being: aging, nutrition and whole foods, movement, mental health, specific health issues, and general health choices. These fundamentals offer a well-rounded and engaging survey of the concepts, issues, and lessons of lifelong health.

Professor Goodman's advice is rooted in scientific information and proven results - without bogging you down in complex terminology or theories. More importantly, it is flavored with commonsense tips, helpful advice, and inspirational stories that make lifelong health both appealing and achievable.

Crafted with the concerns of everyone in mind, whether you're in adolescence or advancing age, this wonderful resource is the perfect way to take those first steps on the road to becoming a better, healthier you.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

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Solid, scientific basis for good health

I found this an extremely interesting run through the current evidence on what works and what doesn't in terms of achieving good health. There were few surprises but what is here is a demonstration of the science that underpins a common sense approach. Recommended.

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Well worth listening to.

I am interested in health and personal development. I appreciated the accent on evidence based practice. The lectures were clear, but assumed some knowledge of anatomy and physiology. Really good.

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Well worth a listen.

Not a huge amount of ground breaking new information here but it is very solid and based on good science and common sense. Dr Goodman is enjoyable to listen to, although the odd time I missed some of the things because of his accent or being a bit soft spoken and I had to rewind. I definitely would recommend anyone interested in health and well-being to listen to this. The time listening to it passed very well and I was never bored.

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Great listen

This is a very enjoyable listen as well as so informative and to the point.
One of the best in the great course series.

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Super comprehensive course!

Fantastic course pitched at just the right level and packed full of helpful advice, anecdotes to promote a healthy lifestyle.
Dr. Goodman has organised every topic logically, illustrates with exaples and hard earned experience whilst narrating with a warm friendly tone. Highly recommended indeed!

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A most beneficial and pleasant learning experience

The narrator is extremely knowledgeable and makes us learn and enjoy at the same time

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A lot of useful lessons

An interesting audiobook. Been written but a primarily retired doctor with many years of relevant experience, it appears genuine and it seems to lack the conflict of interest of other books on the subject of health, longevity and nutrition. There are quite a few takeaways that I will try to incorporate in my life going forward

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Excellent delivery of good sense advice

Dr Goodman does a great job of making the material accessible while still giving a good depth of detail about each topic. Each lecture is a good length and moves at a nice place.

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a great course

thank you Dr.Goldman for a great course. I agree with 99% of things taught in here, but I learned that vaccines are poison in my research. Dr Susanne Humphries is the expert I listen about vaccines.

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Felt like I was an awful lot older by the end

I'm not sure if this is a 3 or a 4 to be honest. The performance was a bit dull to listen to for so many hours with little to no humour or anything more engaging. I thought the information was on the whole pretty obvious and felt a bit laboured.

Main points seemed to be:

1. Exercise
2. Eat wholefoods and a varied diet. Organic preferably (and the Mediterranean diet)
3. Avoid saturated fats
4. Try and avoid stress
5. Try mindfulness
6. Pack in smoking (and probably drinking)
7. Keep your connections with people (though he's not sure why)

There was more to it than that, but that was the main thrust of it all.
It wasn't very Americanised I didn't think with only a couple of chapters discussing American specific things and they didn't really mess up the message.

Exercise he recommended seemed very personalise and I was very surprised that he advised martial arts (which he used to do) and I'm not sure that's what the older people out there would think of that.

I thought some of the dietary information was a little out of date and I felt that a lot of it was lacking older evidence. Some of the things that he advised (e.g. turmeric is only useful against inflammation in huge doses) were not correct or had limited information to support them.

It was okay and has made me get back into exercise and switch to cholesterol lowering fats, but very little else. Keeping active seems to be the main thing that he advises over all else.

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