Breaking the Age Code: How Your Beliefs about Aging Determine How Long and Well You Live

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Breaking the Age Code: How Your Beliefs about Aging Determine How Long and Well You Live

Breaking the Age Code: How Your Beliefs about Aging Determine How Long and Well You Live

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She demonstrates that many health problems formerly considered to be entirely due to the aging process, such as memory loss, hearing decline, and cardiovascular events, are instead influenced by the negative age beliefs that dominate in the US and many other countries.

In this ground-breaking book, filled with stunning scientific insights, captivating stories and easy-to-use tools, Dr.This book makes me want to be a crusader for anti-ageism in a way that sort of surprised me, seeing as I hadn't considered the issue all too deeply before.

Breaking the Age Code is a landmark work, presenting not only easy-to-follow techniques for improving age beliefs so they can contribute to successful aging, but also a blueprint to reduce structural ageism for lasting change and an age-just society. However, and this is why I started with the recommendation, I have some major bones to pick with this one. Even people who are extraordinarily careful to avoid offending marginalized groups often routinely denigrate people based on age, and internalized ageism can have very unfortunate effects on social, psychological, and physical health. She brings a unique perspective about a question we are all concerned with: what happens as we age and get older?She tackles head on how we can shift these outdated ideas at a societal level and what we can do to help ourselves. Studies have shown over and over and over that people who have positive age beliefs live, on average, 7 1/2 years older than those with negative beliefs. This should be required reading for everyone regardless of age — especially medical professionals, marketing professionals, Hollywood, and “influencers. Becca Levy has done a masterful job of describing the importance of aging beliefs on health and wellbeing at both the individual and societal level. Not to mention 3 Appendices with tips and tools for dismantling age bias from the micro to the macro levels.

Now she shares the secrets to a healthy and vibrant long life in this powerful and authoritative book. It has made me realise how easy it is for us to think ourselves old and ill rather than being positive and leading a full life. She then tackles head on the question of how to start shifting Western cultural ideas around getting older. Positive, surprising and full of powerful, practical advice, As Old As You Think will dismantle commonly held assumptions about how we age and leave readers looking forward to - and no longer fearing - what the future holds.

Readers can use insights from this book to increase opportunities to shape a better and longer life. Ageism is a unique prejudice that can have profound effects on everyone (given enough time), and yet, it is one prejudice that in much of society, is completely accepted.

It's a good message (ageism isn't just discriminatory, it negatively impacts health) with maybe a long article's or a booklet's worth of data to support it.First revealing the surprising impact our biases around ageing have on the ageing process, Dr Levy then sets out what we can do as individuals to help ourselves age well using her simple ABC method. I agree, ageism is bad, but that's not the book I bought; I bought a book that's supposed to be a practical how-to guide to "breaking the age code," as it LITERALLY STATES ON THE FRONT COVER, surrounded by a bunch of NUMBERS and LETTERS all SWIRLING AROUND, OOOOOH SCIIIIIIEEEENCE!



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