Prime-Time Health: A Scientifically Proven Plan for Feeling Young and Living Longer »

William Sears, MD, has practiced pediatrics for more than 30 years, and is an associate clinical professor at the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine. Martha Sears is a registered nurse, childbirth educator, and parenting and health consultant. They are the authors of more than 30 books and live in southern California.

Twelve years ago, renowned physician and author Dr. William Sears was diagnosed with cancer. He, like so many people, wanted-and needed-to take control of his health. Dr. Sears created a comprehensive, science based, head-to-toe program for living a long, fit life-and it worked. Now at the peak of health, Dr. Sears shares his program in PRIME-TIME HEALTH. This engaging and deeply informative book will motivate readers to make crucial behavior and lifestyle changes. Dr. Sears explores how to keep each body system healthy and delay those usual age-related changes. Written in Dr. Sears's wise, accessible, and entertaining voice, PRIME-TIME HEALTH is a practical program to help you live your best life possible-pain-free, disease-free, stress-free, and medication-free.

Publishers Weekly

Baby- and child-care experts, the Searses present a healthy aging book for their patients' parents and grandparents, featuring an eight-week self-care nutrition and exercise plan to achieve and maintain optimum health. Now a 12-year survivor of colon cancer, Bill Sears restored himself after surgery and treatment by researching, developing and implementing the LEAN (Lifestyle, Exercise, Attitude, and Nutrition) regimen around which this book is centered. Part I helps readers understand how the body changes with age; part II addresses how to have healthy heart, brain, gut, senses, breathing, bones and joints, and skin. Part III covers the importance of weight loss and better nutrition via sixteen “superfoods” rich in anti-oxidants and Omega 3s; part IV offers the science behind and guidance for quelling inflammation that leads to heart disease and cancer. and part V discusses fitness. Finally, part VI puts it all together in the personal Prime-Time Plan with self-tests and list-making exercises. Amusing, encouraging, and easy-to-remember prescriptive mnemonics and slogans appear in text, boxes, sidebars, and illustrations to enliven a lucid, personal and professional narrative. Sears provides what similar books often lack—an honest and trusted voice plus the latest medical science in a comprehensive, accessible program that is hard to resist. (Jan.)

Foreword Dean Ornish ix

Introduction xiii

How to Read This Book xvii

Part I Are You Ready For Prime Time? 1

1 Invest in Your Personal Prime-Time Health Plan 3

2 Understand How Your Body Changes during Prime Time 18

Part II Keeping Your Body At Its Prime 29

3 Have a Healthy Prime-Time Heart 31

4 Stay Smart and Protect Your Brain 61

5 Be Good to Your Gut 85

6 Improve Your Eye-Q 107

7 Tune Up Your Hearing 114

8 Enjoy Better Breathing 121

9 Be Good to Your Gums 132

10 Build Better Bones 137

11 Rejuvenate Your Joints 151

12 Keep Your Skin Looking Younger 178

Part III Prime-Time Well-Being 187

13 Eat Well with the Sixteen Superfoods 189

14 Get More Restful Sleep 228

15 Subdue Stress 242

16 Enjoy Better (and More) Sex 259

Part IV Prime-Time Health Care 271

17 Practice the Pills-and-Skills Model of Health Care 273

18 Free Your Body of Excess Inflammation 283

19 Lower High Blood Pressure, High Blood Cholesterol, and High Blood Sugar 294

20 Cut Your Chances of Getting Cancer 321

Part V Prime-Time Fitness 339

21 Stay Lean 341

22 Stay Fit 370

23 Stay Safe 400

Part VI The Prime-Time Plan 411

24 Put Together Your Personal Eight-Week Prime-Time Plan 413

A Closing Word from Dr. Bill 428

Acknowledgments 429

Index 431