Oblast: Ostalo
ISBN: 0553107291
Godina izdanja: 1978
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Grace Halsell - Los Viejos: Secrets of Long Life from the Sacred Valley
Bantam, 1978
144 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

For a year Grace Halsell lived with the `Viejos` – the longest-living people in the Western Hemisphere. She stayed in their primitive huts and slept on their beds of rough-hewn wooden boards. She ate their boiled corn called `mote` and listened to their stories of romance and love and the manner in which they give meaning to their lives. She discovered that these gentle people have found for themselves a joy and a peace that few find in more advanced societies. And she brought back with her their simple truths for health, longevity, and self-fulfillment.

Contents
Preface
1. Vilcabamba
2. Genetics
3. Exercise
4. Environment
5. Economics
6. Eating the Vilcabamba Way
7. Smoking and Drinking
8. Love at Any Age
9. A Mixing of Generations-And a Respect for the Elderly
10. Dealing with Stress
11. Coming to Terms with Your Life Summation Index

In 1974 Grace Halsell went to a small, isolated village in the rugged Andean mountains of southern Ecuador to live with the longest-living people in the Western Hemisphere. Her purpose was to find out whether there is an answer to the fears of old age that are so widespread in highly advanced countries like the United States -fears of becoming useless, of total dependence upon others, of boredom and despair.
She lived as one of these Vilcabambans, sharing their huts, food, and daily routines. While there, she had the opportunity to act as interpreter and assistant for a team of American experts who came to study the `secrets` of these people`s longevity and learn how they manage to live to remarkably old ages-up to 132-without ever having had the benefits of a medical checkup or a drugstore prescription.
In her book Ms. Halsell examines these doctors observations and the physical aspects of health and longevity: genetics, exercise, environment, diet, and habits like smoking and drinking...


Nonfiction, Spirituality, 0553107291