Healthy to 100: Aging with Vigor and Grace (Own Your Health)

You Can Be Healthy and Strong to 100!

Each day more and more seniors are busting the myth that it's all downhill after sixty; in fact, these people are proving that you can be vitally healthy and mentally sharp into your nineties and beyond. While great health is something we all want to enjoy for ourselves and those we love, it's even more important these days as insurance companies increase premiums and doctors decrease the time they spend with each patient. Own Your Health gives you the knowledge you need with reliable medical treatments from top doctors in the fields of conventional and alternative medicine. With tips, checklists and stories from caregivers and patients, you'll discover the most effective ways to prevent and treat:

Arthritis - Pain – Diabetes - Eye Problems – High Blood Pressure - Gout - Alzheimer's Disease - Osteoporosis - Parkinson's Disease – Stroke – Heart Disease – Respiratory Problems – Incontinence – Colds and Flu – and More.

With Own Your Health, you have all of the vital information you need about your health at your fingertips.

Alexa Fleckenstein, M.D., of Whole Health New England, is a physician, teacher, writer, inspirational speaker, gardener and mother. She is board-certified in Internal Medicine, with training in Germany and the United States. She also holds a subspecialty degree in Natural Medicine from Germany. She has a special interest in wellness and rejuvenation, particularly the healing effects of water. As an integrative physician in the Boston area, she has taken care of patients in clinics and hospitals for more than twenty years and gives frequent workshops in integrative medicine for community health organizations and in corporate settings. Visit her blog at http://members.authorsguild.net/fleckenstein/blog.htm.

Roanne Weisman writes in the areas of science, medicine and health care. She is the principal author of the award-winning book, Own Your Health: Choosing the best from alternative & conventional medicine (HCI Books 2003). Her articles and feature stories have appeared in newspapers as well as in Alternative Medicine Magazine, Body & Soul Magazine and Country Living Magazine. She also writes extensively for the publications of most of the teaching hospitals of the Harvard Medical Schoo l . She has spoken and conducted workshops around the U.S. and in Canada on integrative medicine, which include her personal story of how "owning" her health helped her recover from a paralyzing stroke.