Successful Aging
- ISBN-10
- 0440508630
- ISBN-13
- 9780440508632
- Series
- Successful Aging
- Category
- Aging
- Pages
- 265
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Dell
- Authors
- John Wallis Rowe, Robert L. Kahn
Description
The president of New York's Mount Sinai Hospital and a professor of public health present the findings of a MacArthur Foundation study showing that healthy aging is dependent on diet, exercise, and self-esteem rather than genes
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