The Doctors 5-Minute Health Fixes
The Prescription for a Lifetime of Great Health
by The Doctors with Mariska van Aalst
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THE DOCTORS 5 MINUTE HEALTH FIXES
Introduction
The Doctors Are On Call—For You
What is the one truly irreplaceable resource? Time.
We all want more time:
• more time to ourselves
• more time to sleep
• more time to develop our talents
• more time to travel, to experience new things
• more time with our spouses or significant others
• more time with our kids or grandkids
• more time to enjoy our lives
With an eye toward saving time, we’ve created machines to do our work for us. Think of all the time-saving machines we’ve developed over the past 100 years.
Instead of washing our clothes by hand, wringing them out, hanging them up on the line, taking them down from the line, ironing them with an iron heated over a fire (which was built by hand), what do we do?
We put our clothes into a box and press a button. Then we put them into another box and press another button. (Can’t get around that folding, though.)
And think about our food. Instead of tilling the soil and growing our food, picking out the weeds every day, chasing down and slaughtering our dinner, plucking feathers, gutting deer, climbing trees or crawling through vines, chopping and slicing and canning, we do this:
We toss a package into a box, close the door, and press a button.
For most of us, all of this time “saved” is not translating into time spent doing things that
improve our lives. With the time we save by nuking a frozen dinner or e-mailing a colleague who is 20 feet away, we’re more likely to . . . well, eat junk food and sit on our butts.
And as we squander that time, we’re also squandering our health. In the process of using more of these time-saving measures to save ourselves effort, we’ve been robbing our bodies of the exercise they used to get and the whole, fresh foods that we used to nourish them with. In a way, all those time-saving tools might actually be stealing time from us—because we may be dying sooner.
Well, no more! We’re here to show you how you can create time. How you may be able to add 2, 4, 10, 20 years to your life—good years, active years. Fun years.
And you’re going to do it starting today. Starting right now. Because we’re going to show you something amazing: You only really need 5 minutes to make a change that lasts a lifetime.
We’re Not only Doctors, We Play Them on TV
Every weekday since September 2008, we’ve come into homes all over America to help you make sense of the conflicting medical information that comes at you from so many sources. We debate each other and share our thoughts about the biggest health headlines, the most controversial new procedures, and the embarrassing questions that people are scared to ask their own doctors. We take that information and turn it into positive solutions that impact viewers’ lives.
If you’ve seen the show, you know we serve up our health information with a little bit of sass and a lot of science. Hey, we’re not only doctors, we’re also guinea pigs.
From THE DOCTOR’S 5-MINUTE HEALTH FIXES by The Doctors with Mariska van Aalst
© 2010 by Stage 29 Productions. All rights reserved.
The Doctors 5-Minute Health Fixes
Paging Dr. Jim, Dr. Travis, Dr. Lisa and Dr. Drew! America needs your help—and your 5-minute health hints.
If you’re like a lot of us, you probably think you just don’t have time to be healthy. It’s too much work and there’s too much conflicting information, leaving you feeling powerless. But the best doctors know that an informed patient is a healthier patient. So before you lift your hands in defeat, here’s good news: Great health is just a page away—in The Doctors 5-Minute Health Fixes.
After combing through the latest medical literature, research and interviews, the Doctors have isolated seven factors that have been linked to the most vibrant, happiest, longest lives. Each body system (heart, brain, gut, skin) can be vastly improved with small lifestyle shifts, most of which take less than five minutes to do. And whether it’s adding cinnamon to your coffee to balance blood sugar or sipping cold water through a straw to nix nicotine cravings, all are easy fixes that anyone can do.
Use these helpers as building blocks, and before you know it you’re on your way to 24-hour health—while preventing disease, reversing aging, getting the most out of your annual checkup—and looking fantastic.
Hardcover : 352 pages
Publisher: Rodale Press, Inc. ( September 14, 2010 )
Item #: 13-158135
ISBN: 9781605293264
Product Dimensions: 7.385 x 9.25 x 0.8inches
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