Anti-Aging Advice: 99 Steps to 100

Anti-Aging Advice: 99 Steps to 100 by Walter M. Bortz, M.D. Enjoy a healthy retirement with Dr. Walter Bortz's anti-aging strategies. This leading aging expert offers 99 simple steps for longevity that show how diet, attitude, exercise and renewal can help you control your body's change, growth and repair.

Step 1: anti-aging nutrition
Step 2: read well to eat well
Step 3: time to eat?
Step 4: your body's need for calories
Step 5: fat alert
Step 6: count cholesterol
Step 7: push carbs
Step 8: protein pros and cons
Step 9: don't dry up
Step 10: slash the salt
Step 11: keep your fiber up
Step 12: vitamin care
Step 13: calcium matters
Step 14: a coffee break for longevity
Step 15: alcohol: anti-aging foe or friend?
Step 16: chemical cuisine?
Step 17: beware free radicals
Step 18: cancer-fighting diet
Step 19: believe in longevityStep 20: be necessary

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DARE to Be 100, the best-selling book by Dr. Bortz, contains his fundamental program for living a long, enjoyable and healthy life.

The DARE Philosophy "DARE to Be 100" is based on Dr. Bortz's "DARE" philosophy: Diet, Attitude, Renewal and Exercise.

Diet. Regarding diet, Dr. Bortz focuses on variety and activity, likening inactive people to zoo animals: "When you're a zoo animal, you must be carefully fed, but wild animals can eat anything." Through exercise, you can boost your metabolism and help slow the aging process. "The most important step is to stay physically active," says Dr. Bortz.

Attitude. This is a crucial and sometimes overlooked category. "Believe in 100," Bortz challenges. If you want to become a centenarian, you must believe you can. Set goals for your retirement, develop a plan and remain optimistic.

Renewal. "Recharge, keep working and stay in the mainstream," says Dr. Bortz. Remain resilient because "it's not how many times you fall -- because age brings losses -- but how many times you stand up" that's important.

Exercise. The anti-aging benefits of aerobic exercise are clear. However, Dr. Bortz cautions us to be strong, stay loose and stay balanced. "The most important organ in an older person is not the heart or lungs but the legs." Legs are what give a person an active, independent lifestyle.

About Walter M. Bortz II, M.D.

Walter M. Bortz is one of America’s most distinguished scientific experts on aging. After training at Williams College and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, he has spent his career at Stanford University, where he holds the position of Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine.

His research has focused on the importance of physical exercise in the promotion of robust aging. Dr. Bortz’s books include We Live Too Short and Die Too Long, Dare To Be 100 and Living Longer for Dummies.

Dr. Bortz has been president of the American Geriatric Society and co-chair of the American Medical Association's Task Force on Aging, and chairman of the board of directors of Fifty-Plus Lifelong Fitness.

An avid runner, the 75-year old physician completed thirty-five marathons and is a columnist for Runner’s World magazine.