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Aging With Grace: What the Nun Study Teaches Us About Leading Longer, Healthier, and More Meaningful Lives
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 618
EAN: 9780553380927
ISBN: 0553380923
Label: Bantam
Manufacturer: Bantam
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: April 30, 2002
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date: April 30, 2002
Studio: Bantam
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Editorial Review:
In 1986 Dr. David Snowdon, one of the world’s leading experts on Alzheimer’s disease, embarked on a revolutionary scientific study that would forever change the way we view aging—and ultimately living. Dubbed the “Nun Study” because it involves a unique population of 678 Catholic sisters, this remarkable long-term research project has made headlines worldwide with its provocative discoveries.
Yet Aging with Grace is more than a groundbreaking health and science book. It is the inspiring human story of these remarkable women—ranging in age from 74 to 106—whose dedication to serving others may help all of us live longer and healthier lives.Totally accessible, with fascinating portraits of the nuns and the scientists who study them, Aging with Grace also offers a wealth of practical findings:• Why building linguistic ability in childhood may protect against Alzheimer’s
• Which ordinary foods promote longevity and healthy brain function
• Why preventing strokes and depression is key to avoiding Alzheimer’s
• What role heredity plays, and why it’s never too late to start an exercise program
• How attitude, faith, and community can add years to our livesA prescription for hope, Aging with Grace shows that old age doesn’t have to mean an inevitable slide into illness and disability; rather it can be a time of promise and productivity, intellectual and spiritual vigor—a time of true grace.
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Rating:  - Alzheimer
My mother, grand mother and great grandmother have had Alzheimer. This book has helped me a lot to understand the sickness and given me good ideas of what to do with the rest of my life. Thanks
Rating: - Not what I thought....
I really thought this would be a dry scientific book about results, showing graphs, etc, but it was not at all! The nuns told him he could only study them if he promised to get to know them, and he followed their wishes completely. I'm trying to make my sentences as long as possible and if you read the book, you'll know why and think I'm hopeless! The author has a wonderful way of weaving their lives into what he has discovered, as he leaves each little pause in the chapters with a sentence to make ... Read More
Rating: - Very Inspirational for young researchers
As a young geriatrist and researcher I found Dr Snowdon's scientific experience told in such a personal way very inspirational, puts into perpective and unwraps much of what aging and clinical research is about.
I found also amazing his ability to read details in each of the nuns lives named in the book to make conclusions related to how to become old in a "longer, healthier and more meaningful" way.
A "must read" book for everyone interested in gerontology...perhaps all of us: the aging ... Read More
Rating: - Great read for many reasons
Ordered for a class related to epidemiology and nursing. Turns out i would have loved it regardless. A scientist collects data from a unique nun population in search of data which leads him on a extensive journey related to Alzheimer's disease. Personal and subjective. Informative and endearing. Would and have recommended to many. Easy read.
Rating: - The Nuns Have It
If your idea of nuns is none having fun, get ready for a surprise. Dr. Snowden made a study of 678 nuns, called The Nun Study. Many signed up to donate their brains to science, once having shed the mortal coil, for a study of alzheimer's disease. How thoughtful of the good sisters, one thinks, who, of course, in the dark, dank, life denying precincts of cloistered religion, of course all succumbed to this sad, mind- ravaging disease, after having soldiered on for so long, denied even life's smallest ... Read More
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