The Longevity Book: The Science Of Aging, By Cameron Diaz

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The Longevity Book: The Science of Aging, the Biology of Strength, and the Privilege of Time is an encyclopedia about women 's aging, which copyright date April 5th, 2016. The authors of the The Longevity Book are the actress Cameron Diaz and newly minted lifestyle guru Sandra Bark. However, The Longevity Book unlike many other books talk about women 's aging. This book not only does not focus on the point of view of anti-aging, but also does not focus on how to make people look younger. As Cameron Diaz (author) wrote, "I will not tell you how to deceive the time, or how to use 30 days to reverse aging."
This book attempts to explore the mechanism of the aging process, and know how the time affects our physiology and psychology. Cameron …show more content…

This book has three parts, which totally contains twelve chapters. And the first part describes living in the age of longevity, and it includes four chapters. The first chapter talk about all creatures will grow old. Although there are many anti-aging methods, they can maintain some parts of the body, aging means that all the parts of a person 's body will be aging, and both inside and outside will have the problems. Therefore, Cameron Diaz claims that the only way to become young is to admit that you are now aging. And she agrees that every age of a woman has her own beauty. In her view, the real beauty is eternal, so it has nothing to do with age. In the second chapter, Cameron Diaz suggests that people should look at the middle-aged crisis as a middle-aged celebration. Compared with the past people, now people live longer, because now people have recognized the bacteria and viruses and other microorganisms. In addition, she also proposed as an aging person, people need to cherish the time, as much as possible to learn and take care of themselves. Cameron Diaz in the third chapter describes how to study aging today, and she said that aging research is still in its infancy. As Cameron (2016) have noted, "Let 's try to better understand how our choices our health at the cellular level, and how the changes in our cells are what affect our health as a whole, and in particular, our health as we age. " In the fourth chapter, Cameron Diaz describes how women will affect their …show more content…

The third part introduces the art and science of life longer, which also contains four chapters. In the ninth chapter, Cameron stressed that women need to through diet, fitness and rest to create a more robust body. In the words of Carmona (2016), “The trifecta of strength—nutrition, movement, sleep—is the most important tool we have to protect ourselves as we age.” She also wants you to go to the gym. Despite the prevalence of dietary supplements, good old-fashioned exercise is the best way to counteract osteoporosis and other age-related health problems. Diaz is a fitness enthusiast, and she shares a convincing study with her. Researchers at Stanford University have studied the relationship between exercise and health among athletes over 50 years of age and found that athletes with lower levels of inflammation, The response to the vaccine better, compared with its less active peers, psychological function improved. In the tenth chapter, she advises women to manage the stress and learn to relax, which can enhance the immune system. People 's emotional health is as important as physical health. The long-term stress can cause harm to the body and increase mortality. More and more adults are experiencing loneliness and isolation, so it is never so important to extend support to friends and strengthen social relations. In Chapter 11, Carmona refers that the brain is the strongest computer. The brain is the body 's most sophisticated organ for thinking activities. People often