• 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: INR 365.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 200 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Healthy Living

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 Opie, Director Emeritus, Hatter Cardiovascular Research Institute, Cape Town, South Africa. He qualified as a medical doctor at the University of Cape Town.

Lionel H. Opie is Director Emeritus at Hatter Cardiovascular Research Institute, Cape Town, South Africa. He qualified as a medical doctor at the University of Cape Town. He then won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University where he trained in heart research and later worked with leaders of thought at Harvard University. After the world's first heart transplant in Cape Town, he was invited back to South Africa to develop heart research at Groote Schuur Hospital, where he still works. As a clinician he specializes in managing problems of high blood pressure, high cholesterol and reducing heart attack risks. His teams' ground-breaking contributions show how exercise can counter heart attacks, following the philosophy that heart-mind interactions are of crucial importance in achieving and maintaining optimal health. He is highly regarded internationally as a scientist, academic and medical writer.