• ISBN13: 9780199465880
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Health, Physical Fitness and Yoga
• Publisher: Oxford UP
• Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP
• Publication Date: December 12, 2015
• Pages: 200
• Original Price: 365.0 INR
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 200 grams

What is life without being healthy? Good health is the key to a healthy mind a challenge in today’s world featured by erratic lifestyles. Living Longer, Living Better is for all those who strive for optimum health and maximum heart and mind performance. Renowned cardiologist Professor Lionel H. Opie guides the reader through the wilderness of health fads, snake-oil salesmen and media hype into the promised land of sound, evidence-based health advice. Harmonious blend of a sound heart and mind is absolutely essential to a healthy ageing process. Professor Opie sifts through a maze of information on the science underlying health benefits of practices such as controlling diet, meditation, yoga and prayer. He offers five key steps which taken today will protect you from future heart disease and brain deterioration and also promote long-term health benefits. Salient Features• Winner of the general readership, self-help award, Medical Journalists' Association Awards 2011 • Focus on Yoga and diet relevant to Asian countries • Easily comprehensible health education tool • Both practitioners and lay people are the intended audience and both can benefit from an exciting blend of evidence and common sense

Lionel H. Opie is Professor of Medicine and Director Emeritus at Hatter Cardiovascular Research Institute, Cape Town, South Africa.