Ten Years Younger: The Amazing Ten Week Plan to Look Better, Feel Better, and Turn Back the Clock

by Steven Masley

How would you like to look and feel ten years younger in just ten weeks time? Studies show that Americans on the whole are aging faster than ever with conditions like diabetes, cancer, and heart disease occurring increasingly earlier on in life—along with everyday age indicators like wrinkles and love handles. Now, Dr. Steven Masley, former medical director of the prestigious Pritikin Longevity Center® and a pioneer in anti-aging medicine, delivers a breakthrough plan to turn back the clock, inside and out—no matter what your age!

Originally featured on the Discovery Channel, the Ten Years Younger Program is designed to combat the roots of accelerated aging. Poor nutrition, toxins in the environment, stress, and exposure to free radicals all make us old before our time, along with a little-known aging low- and no-carb diets. As Dr. Masley shows, low-carb diets deprive the body of anti-aging phytonutrients and fiber, accelerate osteoporosis, and damage brain cells. So the first secret of turning back time Eat your carbs!

Each week, Ten Years Younger guides you through an age-busting combination of cutting-edge nutritional choices, relaxation techniques to reduce the aging effects of stress, and simple workouts designed to build lean muscle and trim and tone your body from head to toe. By following the plan for just ten weeks, you

Achieve significant weight loss—up to twenty-five pounds
Boost your energy levels
Rejuvenate your skin
Enhance brain function
Prevent and reverse the onset of diabetes and heart disease
Lower your cholesterol and blood pressure
Improve sexual vitality

With tools to help you assess how your body is really aging, weekly shopping lists and meal plans, and over 100 delicious recipes packed with antioxidants and anti-aging nutrients, Ten Years Younger is the healthiest, safest, and fastest way to take off the years—no surgery required!

Genres: Health

400 pages, Hardcover

First published December 27, 2005

About the author

STEVEN MASLEY, MD is a Fellow with the American Heart Association, the American Academy of Family Physicians,and with the American College of Nutrition. He has devoted his medical career to the study of heart disease and aging, and has published significant research on these subjects in leading medical journals.
Currently he is the president of the Masley Optimal Health Center in St. Petersburg, Florida, and has a clinical appointment with the University of South Florida.

He is also an instructor of Lasting Leadership with Eckerd College, and has taught at the Center for Leadership with Sykes College of Business at the University of Tampa.

Reviews

[Erica Bellinger · Rating 3 out of 5]

The information is basic and basically an elongated version of what you would find in a health magazine. It would be really helpful to someone that needs step by step instruction to get on the right track. I used it as a review for what I already know.

[False · Rating 2 out of 5]

Did I even read this? I am guessing I did. He's big on vitamins and nutrition. The material seemed a bit dated, and it's not even that old, but sometimes even five years can age a book. Think about mobile phones in movies in the past few years.

[Josh · Rating 3 out of 5]

Stress, inactivity, and malnutrition (poor diet) contribute to aging.

Most ideas presented feel okay. Were there any citations? I don't recall either way.

The recommendation of 'nonfat sour cream' in the included recipes leaves me feeling less confident in the book. (How can cream be nonfat?)

[Kathy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dr Masley does an excellent job of explaining in layman terms how & why bad eating habits, lack of exercise and exposure to toxins impacts our bodies and ages us. His 10-week program, while nothing radically new, is easy to adapt and follow.

[Aileen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm always re-reading this one.

[Lynda]

Thank God I'm only 30 now.

[Catherine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Going to give this one another, closer look soon. It seems like there are lots of good ideas here that are reasonable to attempt.