Shari and I are celebrating our 60th year together and 58th as man and wife. Fortunately we aren’t dealing with what I’m calling chronic aging.
Chronic aging is embracing 125 million Americans with its unhealthy lifestyle habits. Chronic diseases are the biggest threat to longevity. It is estimated that 61 million of aging American have up to five active chronic diseases. And they are being told by researches and medical experts that most are unavoidable and irreversible. Why? Because “Modern Medicine” makes its revenue based on this theory. Pills and treatment are the protocol. Clearly, 80% of the nation’s $2.7 trillion health care costs are attributable to chronic illnesses causing the chronic aging process.
As the Wall Street Journal recently reported, life expectancy in the United States is down for the first time ever. Why? Americans are generally not healthy due to harmful relationships, activities and lifestyles. Plus, the “Baby Boomers” are flooding the health care industry with multiple chronic illnesses. We want to prevent or reverse that trend with our book about aging habits for men and women who are 50+ (and their families).
Why us, why now? Ironically, the facts (the authors are the best example) demonstrate that chronic aging is certainly avoidable and reversible by changing lifestyle habits.
When answering “what’s your secret for being married 58 years and looking as good as you both do, I always answer Sex, Kids and Rock-N-Roll.” In essence, we have defied the conventional aging wisdom … retire at 55, 60 or 65 and start the dying process. We, on the other hand, started a new business at the age of 70, sold it when we were 76 and started a new career … co-writing books and coaching other aging Americans how to live younger-stronger-longer. If you’re younger than 50 you need to avoid chronic aging and if you are over 50 you need to reverse the harm you’ve done to yourself by having habits that accelerate aging. Our books will get into the details but now you need to be aware of the ramifications of chronic aging.
AVOID CHRONIC AGING
When we mention living longer most people, if truthful, cringe about being old, sick and unhappily in a nursing home. Why? Because our culture doesn’t focus on health for longevity but health for self-satisfaction during the journey. “If I have to suffer I don’t want anything to do with it. I would rather live my way now and not worry about later!” How’s that going to work for you when you are old before your time, sick, unhappy in a nursing home for the last ten years. It’s about the quality of your entire life.
YOUR QUALITY OF LIFE
Ask yourself the following questions to see the areas where you can improve:
QUESTION YES NO
Do you know what your Real Age is vs. your Birth Age? ___ ___
Is your Real Age less than your Birth Age? ___ ___
Do you ever avoid looking in the mirror? ___ ___
Do you feel strong and energetic? ___ ___
Does your doctor say you’re in good health? ___ ___
Are you as sexually active as you’d like to be? ___ ___
Do you sleep well? ___ ___
Do you have a regular exercise routine? ___ ___
Do you have hobbies you enjoy? ___ ___
Are you giving back to others? ___ ___
Do you have good friends? ___ ___
Do you have close relationships with your family? ___ ___
Do you laugh a lot every day? ___ ___
Are you being smart with your finances? ___ ___
Do you have a good relationship with God or Source? ___ ___
All the above might seem like a lot, but if you don’t fix those things now…
Then when will you fix those things?
Life is short…
And you’re not getting any younger.
Take a chance on change!
It all starts with…
YOUR HABITS (the way you live your life)
“An ounce of prevention is worth a hundred pounds of fat and stress habits causing accelerated aging”- Jerry Rhoads
“Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.” – Mark Twain
WHAT ARE YOUR HABITS?
A good habit is a behavior that is beneficial to one’s physical or mental health, often linked to a high level of discipline and self-control.
A bad habit is, well, the opposite.
Jerry and Shari propose that both good and bad habits are a result of a lifestyle that naturally determines life’s longevity. The 12 habits (the way you live your life) for a happy, healthy and prosperous Rhoads lifestyle in aging are pursuing both quantity and quality. The bottom line for our readers isn’t to be like Shari and Jerry but to be yourself in light of what will make you happy, healthy and prosperous over your remaining years here and hereafter. We want to be your enablers not your role models.
REVERSE CHRONIC AGING
Though there are physical maladies that afflict aging it is the harmful habits from the subconscious that create resolvable problems. Not just issues, but real life-threatening problems. The research shows that harmful habits are a subconscious brain function and a body behavior function so the solution is in how you think, act and behave that affects your other brain and body functions for feeling good or bad. Blend these with cravings (a function of desiring the reward), will power (feelings of guilt then commitment) and desire for feeling good and you have the habit loop (cue, routine and reward). All of which is orchestrated by your brain to avoid having to think out your every move. But it takes a conscious effort to change this loop. See the resistance to change in Chapter 13 the Last Chapter and Verse for making the transition from harmful to good feelings.
It is possible for you as the eighth wonder of the world … mind, soul, heart, brain and spirit … don’t fear it … never stop being you.
For – “You are the master of you fate and the captain of your soul.”
For – “What You’ve dared you have willed and what you have willed you’ll do.”
For – “You wouldn’t have desire unless you were capable of it.”
PREVENT OR REVERSE BAD LIFESTYLE HABITS SO YOUR REAL AGE SCORE IS LESS THAN YOUR BIRTH AGE.
CONTACT US FOR DETAILS ON HOW TO LIVE YOUNGER-STRONGER-LONGER SO 75 IS MIDDLE AGE.
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