November 15 - One expert's new book adds to the movement advocating lifestyle choices, not medicine, as the key to good health and longevity. In this highly recommended book, there's no 'magic' pill or fad diet for good health. Personal responsibility for wise choices can help you live to 100.
Consumers ask, if personality responsibility influences environment, and gene variants can be overridden with nutrition, environment, and lifestyle choices through gene tags that can be switched on or off by nutrition, lifestyle, and environment, how much longevity is due to genes? Is it 50 percent or more like 30 percent?
And if identical twins can have very different longevity rates based on and influenced by their food choices, lifestyle, and environment--such as stressful relationships or occupations, can consumers really count on lifestyle choices making them live more than five years longer than their parents and grandparents if genetics took the lives of their relatives in middle age?
Do lifestyle choices really work? If so, why do so many physicians offer only conventional medicine? Consumers would like to know the answers from the experts that haven't been trained in medical schools to diagnose and simply prescribe the latest or old standy drug. Could it be as simple as brushing with baking soda? Eating lots of vegetables and fruits? Balancing lifestyle, getting out of a bad marriage or solving the problems?
Like so many things in life, the best answer to a problem is often the simplest. It is no different when it comes to health, wellness, and longevity.
Dr. Sanja Gupta of CNN advocates over the airwaves healthy lifestyle choices. Dr. Mehmet Oz is well known for simplifying the message of preventive health choices and the effects bad health choices have on our bodies. These doctors represent a growing number of physicians and researchers who have taken a stand for better lifestyle choices for improved health and longevity. (Also see the article, "Montel Williams: Montel's Journey to Living Well.")
See the outstanding, highly recommended book, Living Well at One Hundred. In her new book, Living Well at One Hundred, famed biochemist and treatment specialist of non-healing and complex wounds Dr. Darlene McCord joins this medical chorus and shares pertinent information that allows for healthy lifestyle changes. The colorfully illustrated tabletop book is an easy to read reference for anyone looking to improve their stamina, and prevent and treat diseases such as diabetes and hypertension as well as increase their life’s longevity.
Living Well at One Hundred begins with an honest assessment of the rise in health care spending over the past 40-years, and why bad lifestyle choices - are one of the main culprits to this increase. Dr. McCord is a strong advocate for prevention using diet, exercise and supplements as a foundation to a healthy life.
She says of preventive medicine, “The march to better health is not being led by insurance and pharmaceutical companies—it is being led by a growing number of cutting-edge physicians, researchers, and a throng of people just like you and me.”
“Over the past century, the average life expectancy has more than doubled. The extension of human longevity is one of our greatest achievements. However, in order to maintain the tremendous gains we have made, we must become partners in our own health and more actively participate in the choices that will impact it," adds McCord. "The concept of living well is about how to take charge of our everyday life circumstances. Our own longevity is actually controlled each and every day by the decisions we make. Simple choices—from the food we eat to exercise—can result in previously unsurpassed physical and emotional health."
Living Well at One Hundred is decidedly different from most 'health' books in that it encourages and explains many small steps one can take toward a healthy life. At their own pace, readers can plan their own 'journey' to wellness and health.
"The answer to health and wellness is at our fingertips every day, from the food we eat to basic choices," notes McCord. "It really isn't complex, radical diets or new medicines aren't needed."
Dr. Darlene McCord, Ph.D., FAPWCA is known for her work, as a biochemist, in skin and wound care. She has been awarded two patents and invented six highly regarded medical devices. She currently has more than 30 skin health products being sold around the world. Dr. McCord’s most current commercialized skin and wound care product offering is the Remedy brand distributed by Medline Industries.
The line is based on a proprietary blend of small molecules called Olivamine® that provide corneotherapeutic support for diseased skin. Previously, Dr. McCord developed the Restore line for Hollister and the Cavalon line for 3M. She is currently working with the University of Iowa on compounds that may reverse early stages of necrosis and that can activate GO quiescent cells in the chronic wound environment.
She and her husband Doctor James McCord also head the McCord Research Buruli Ulcer Foundation, which focuses on finding the cause of, and cure for, the Buruli Ulcer, a flesh destroying bacteria that mainly affects children in more than thirty countries. Living Well at One Hundred can be purchased at all major online booksellers or by visiting Authorhouse.
Dr. Darlene McCord is one of the two founders of McCord Research. As senior researcher, she brings a unique blend of scientific credentials to the position. Through her leadership, the company has achieved worldwide recognition in the OTC Drug and Medical Device categories, according to her website biography.
Dr. Darlene McCord's work has led to global recognition in the field of skin and wound repair, according to her website. Her mission remains improving the quality of life for people in every country of the world. For further information, see Dr. Darlene E. McCord's biography on her site at: Darlene McCord - About Dr. Darlene McCord, PhD, FAPWCA-.
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