Drawing on varied sources, from personal experience and sociological trends to pop culture and current scientific literature, Natural Causes examines the ways in which we obsess over death, our bodies, and our health. Both funny and caustic, Ehrenreich then tackles the seemingly unsolvable problem of how we might better prepare ourselves for the end -- while still reveling in the lives that remain to us.

"Remember when we were children and we had the kind of energy and flexibility to play for hours? Agile and active, we could twist, bend, stretch and climb with little effort. However many of us get more sedentary the older we get. We spend more and more time sitting in place, staring at a TV or computer screen. Extended hours of little activity and poor posture take their toll, and eventually our backs start to hurt and cramp with every movement....

"A practical guide for an uptight world. Don't let stress become distress and ruin your life. Tension can hurt your health, hamper your relationships, curtail your ability to concentrate and learn, lower your productivity and creativity and problem solving ability, and undermine your self-confidence and happiness. Includes practical tips and guidance to reduce the tension and stress in your life."--

"There are many publications on how to quit smoking, some made by hundreds and hundreds of pages, packed with platitudes and exhausting repetitions, offering methods absurd and inefficient, if not even harmful, usually intended to persuade the smoker with tantalizing expectations personal improvement, increased quality of life, or using smoke's demonization, terrorizing the reader with detailed illustrations of adverse effects, or serious damage and...

"A blend of touching stories, fascinating facts, and rollicking humor is presented in this entertaining look at the jaunt towards senior citizenship. Guaranteed to stir souls, stimulate minds, and tickle funny bones, the chapters include Why It's Great to Be Chronologically Endowed, Grandkids Say the Darnedest Things, The Lighter Side of Aging, and Jest for the Health of It. Advice on enjoying one's golden years is featured, from how to accumulate...

"Dr. Bogash has been publishing posts related to health, achieving and maintaining weight loss and anti-aging for many years. This book is a compilation of blog posts done over the years in a organized format with some additional commentary to help make the information clearer. Many of the topics discussed in this book may be new to you and may never have been brought up by your personal physician. Unfortunately, there is a veritable chasm between...

"In this second book of The Now What? Fitness Series, certified personal fitness trainer Linda Burke delves into cardiovascular fitness."The Media often leaves you confused, ill-informed, or even worse: completely scammed or lied to with offers of quick fixes, magic potions, or crazy contraptions promising unrealistic results," cautions Burke. "With obesity rates higher than they've ever been, and aging baby-boomers growing more concerned than ever...

"The book that autoimmune disease, cancer, body fat, and wrinkles will hate! Anti-aging & anti-inflammatory--delicious Dessert recipes with no grain, gluten, refined sugar, dairy, soy, or guilt :) Yummy Desserts to flatten abs, beautify skin, hair & nails, and make you feel great! About the Author Laurie Vukich, and her daughter, Tiffany, are stylists to the stars, now taking that creativity into the kitchen. Their natural, organic craze was inspired...

"Not only accepting but celebrating getting old, this inspirational and illuminating work looks at the many facets of the aging process, from purposes and challenges to struggles and surprises. Central throughout is a call to cherish the blessing of aging as a natural part of life that is active, productive, and deeply rewarding. Perhaps the most important dimension revealed lies in the awareness that there is a purpose to aging and intention built...

The first book to open up a real conversation about aging. What has the experience of getting older felt like for you? It seems that life's milestones pass by in a flash: graduating from school, landing your first job, getting married, having kids. Most people look forward to these events and have some expectations about what each life milestone will be like. But what about when you get older? How can you continue to live fully in your sixties, seventies,...