Excellent Book On Managing Health and Ageing

I thought that the time here in Basalt with my daughter (Bronwyn) and granddaughter (Stephanie) would be a more or less idle interlude. I did take it easy for a day or so but a short bike ride with Bronwyn has introduced me to the excellent system of bike ways they have developed here in the Rocky River Valley. It is possible to ride the length of the valley witDiethout going onto the main road; fortuitous indeed as the traffic is very dense.
I have also renewed acquaintance with a neighbor and good friend of Bronwyn, Willie Sabarase. Originally trained as a biologist, Willie is quite an entrepreneur and very successful; he has quite wide interests. Meeting up with him again is an example of the privilege of traveling: the opportunity to engage with interesting people.
Willie has loaned me a book, Younger Next year; turn back your biological clock, by Chris Crowley and Henry Lodge. Chris is a 70 year old man who became a patient of Henry (an internist and gerontologist) about a decade back. If you read it, this will revolutionize your approach to exercise which they hold to be the secret to managing health, fitness, and to managing the ageing process. It is a great complement to the Real Age book, You: On a Diet: The Owners Manual for Waist Management.
Another great book to read in this connection is Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss--and the Myths and Realities of Dieting.
This latter is by Gina Kolata, a science writer for NY Times who researched various diets. All three books are written in an energetic style and chockablock with the latest information about how the body manages either for heath or illness. It seems we actually have a lot of choice available to us based on this knowledge.
Actually, the order I have mentioned these books is the order I recommend you take them up. They connect our hunter gatherer heritage of just a few thousand years back with the challenges life in our "civilized" complex society and the health problems the disconnect between the two bring our way.