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Stop Aging Now!: The Ultimate Plan for Staying Young and Reversing the Aging Process
In Stop Aging Now! , Jean Carper -- winner of the 1995 Excellence in Journalism Award from the American Aging Association (the nation's leading group of scientists investigating the biomedical aspects of aging), nationally syndicated columnist and leading authority on health and nutrition -- documents how antioxidant vitamins, minerals, herbs and food chemicals are the magic youth potions humans have been seeking for centuries. Based on exciting new scientific findings from leading institutions, Stop Aging Now! reveals the stunning Much of what we call aging is not inevitable, but is needless and can be prevented and reversed to a startling degree by supplements and foods. Indeed, aging is often due to unsuspected deficiencies that can be readily corrected, and even people in their sixties, seventies and eighties can turn back the clock and recover their youth. Leading scientists have found Vitamins can prevent and reverse memory loss and other signs of aging. Vitamins and minerals can rejuvenate immune functions, restoring youthful resistance to infections and cancer. Antioxidants in foods and supplements can help prevent clogged arteries, heart attacks and general bodily deterioration. Many unfamiliar but readily available food chemicals can prolong life and preserve your vitality.
384 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1995
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Jean Carper
121 books18 followersJean Carper is a New York Times best-selling author, contributing editor to USA Weekend Magazine (700 newspapers nationwide and 50 million readers) and a leading authority on health and nutrition. She is the author of 24 books, including “Your Miracle Brain, Miracle Cures, Stop Aging Now!, Food-Your Miracle Medicine, The Food Pharmacy, Jean Carper’s Complete Healthy Cookbook”—and now, her latest–
“100 Simple Things You Can Do to Prevent Alzheimer’s and Age-Related Memory Loss,” which she wrote after discovering that she carries the major gene for Alzheimer’s.
“100 Simple Things You Can Do to Prevent Alzheimer’s and Age-Related Memory Loss,” which she wrote after discovering that she carries the major gene for Alzheimer’s.
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August 21, 2019
While there was good information about the benefits of taking vitamins, overall the book is written is a style that is extremely negative about old people and or growing old.
It even labels "aging" (living old) as a "disease", which it is not. Rather, it is a normal part of maturation or growing up. In fact, everyone is aging, a term that Ms. Carper used in relation only to persons of a certain age, about 55 and up.
Really, the person who was a baby in 1980 is 39 in 2019. Just as a new born in 2019 will be 10 years old in 2029. Is that a disease? It most certainly is not called aging, but it is most certainly aging.
As far as disease is concern, babies, children, teens and all people grow ill. (Of course, it breaks our hearts when children are sick, but also when any of our loved one and/or friends are ill of any age.)
But even newborns come down with dreaded and/or incurable diseases. This is very sad and unbearable to witness, especially for parents, grandparents and siblings, to. Research is key and hopefully, disease will be eradicated.
Disease is disease, but clearly, age is not a disease. In fact, one starts aging from conception although still young. However. 89 is old, but this 89 year old is not aging anymore that a 10 year boy is aging. After all, a year goes by for each of them, no less for 10 year old than an 89 year old or even a 100 year old.
I believe that the word aging is a euphemism for dying or closer to death, but that is not even valid, since young and old people live and die daily; just as young and old people continue to live. Who's to say who will be around tomorrow regardless of age
.
And why can't authors, reporters, doctors use the term “old or oldster”?
To say that a person is aging or elderly or a senior seems condescending and without meaning. These term absolutely have negative connotations, like a disease, instead or healthy robust living.
On mostly every page, over and over. the word "aging" is used in a negative or bad light. The words healthy, vibrant, robust, lively energetic might just have easily been substituted.
At any rate, who among us can stop the process of becoming old; but we’re admonished to go to war with this natural stage of life rather than to embrace and seek better health, de-stress, exercise and eat “real food and/or cultivate more healthy relationships. These are things we can change.
Why not tell the reader to embrace health, get a hobby, laugh, take vitamins eat right, have a party, open a business, go back to school all of which can increase vitality and health. Why does a person have to be young vs. strong, healthy and vibrant.
After all, Ms. Carper, by her own estimation of people of a certain age, she is elderly, aging, a senior. Does she consider her own life "diseased?" I hope not; so why put growing old, being old or just old in a bad light?
Why not call it a time of Joy, another chapter, a time to embrace a new higher level of health, regain health or achieve it for the first time?
Why not call it a period of ultimate beauty and wisdom? Why not a time to say to ourselves: It’s my turn now to be who I truly am, to be what I want to be, to embrace my best healthy life and to live my dream, or with all my might to at least try?
PS: Two (2) stars, because the benefits of vitamins and minerals were included?
It even labels "aging" (living old) as a "disease", which it is not. Rather, it is a normal part of maturation or growing up. In fact, everyone is aging, a term that Ms. Carper used in relation only to persons of a certain age, about 55 and up.
Really, the person who was a baby in 1980 is 39 in 2019. Just as a new born in 2019 will be 10 years old in 2029. Is that a disease? It most certainly is not called aging, but it is most certainly aging.
As far as disease is concern, babies, children, teens and all people grow ill. (Of course, it breaks our hearts when children are sick, but also when any of our loved one and/or friends are ill of any age.)
But even newborns come down with dreaded and/or incurable diseases. This is very sad and unbearable to witness, especially for parents, grandparents and siblings, to. Research is key and hopefully, disease will be eradicated.
Disease is disease, but clearly, age is not a disease. In fact, one starts aging from conception although still young. However. 89 is old, but this 89 year old is not aging anymore that a 10 year boy is aging. After all, a year goes by for each of them, no less for 10 year old than an 89 year old or even a 100 year old.
I believe that the word aging is a euphemism for dying or closer to death, but that is not even valid, since young and old people live and die daily; just as young and old people continue to live. Who's to say who will be around tomorrow regardless of age
.
And why can't authors, reporters, doctors use the term “old or oldster”?
To say that a person is aging or elderly or a senior seems condescending and without meaning. These term absolutely have negative connotations, like a disease, instead or healthy robust living.
On mostly every page, over and over. the word "aging" is used in a negative or bad light. The words healthy, vibrant, robust, lively energetic might just have easily been substituted.
At any rate, who among us can stop the process of becoming old; but we’re admonished to go to war with this natural stage of life rather than to embrace and seek better health, de-stress, exercise and eat “real food and/or cultivate more healthy relationships. These are things we can change.
Why not tell the reader to embrace health, get a hobby, laugh, take vitamins eat right, have a party, open a business, go back to school all of which can increase vitality and health. Why does a person have to be young vs. strong, healthy and vibrant.
After all, Ms. Carper, by her own estimation of people of a certain age, she is elderly, aging, a senior. Does she consider her own life "diseased?" I hope not; so why put growing old, being old or just old in a bad light?
Why not call it a time of Joy, another chapter, a time to embrace a new higher level of health, regain health or achieve it for the first time?
Why not call it a period of ultimate beauty and wisdom? Why not a time to say to ourselves: It’s my turn now to be who I truly am, to be what I want to be, to embrace my best healthy life and to live my dream, or with all my might to at least try?
PS: Two (2) stars, because the benefits of vitamins and minerals were included?
January 31, 2016
I'm giving this a 2-star because this book was originally published in 1995 and though the publisher says the information has been updated, it is mainly that some addendums have been added and the big picture of the book has not been adapted - hence resulting in sometimes erroneous information such as steer clear of saturated fat and cholesterol in eggs being bad for you (has been proven the latter is not the case! Of course, moderation is key here, but even an egg a day is not bad for your cholesterol), and then there's the 'stay clear of fat...so eat fat-free food as much as possible'. Has been shown that fat-free is basically just another name for 'full of additives and sugar' to mimic the fat feel and this is some of the worst stuff you could eat. Other thing that didn't sit well - microwave your meat before cooking it. Hello - there is tons of ambivalence and more cons than pros of using microwaves nowadays, so this is not good advice at all.
The parts about which supplements work best was really good, but it got killed by the 'avoid this and that' section which turned into really bad advice that has not followed the times and research and studies' outcomes.
Furthermore, the addendums were merely studies that further 'proved' the author's points about supplements, but there was nothing about saturated fats, fat-free, and microwaves, among others.
The parts about which supplements work best was really good, but it got killed by the 'avoid this and that' section which turned into really bad advice that has not followed the times and research and studies' outcomes.
Furthermore, the addendums were merely studies that further 'proved' the author's points about supplements, but there was nothing about saturated fats, fat-free, and microwaves, among others.
July 20, 2019
Great, about vitamins and minerals we should take. Why to take them, how much, and the foods that provide necessary health.
January 18, 2026
A fascinating time capsule — but not a guide for modern health
Stop Aging Now was clearly written with good intentions and reflects the excitement of the early 1990s around nutrition, supplements, and the possibility of slowing aging. In that sense, it is an interesting historical snapshot of where longevity thinking stood at the time.
That said, this book is now 30 years out of date, and much of the scientific guidance has not held up under modern research. Large clinical trials over the past two decades have overturned or significantly revised many of the supplement claims and health recommendations presented here. Some advice that once seemed promising has since been shown to be ineffective or even potentially harmful when applied broadly.
If you are interested in the history of the anti-aging movement, this book has value.
If you are looking for current, evidence-based guidance on health, longevity, cognition, or disease prevention, I would strongly recommend choosing a more recent book grounded in modern clinical data.
Stop Aging Now was clearly written with good intentions and reflects the excitement of the early 1990s around nutrition, supplements, and the possibility of slowing aging. In that sense, it is an interesting historical snapshot of where longevity thinking stood at the time.
That said, this book is now 30 years out of date, and much of the scientific guidance has not held up under modern research. Large clinical trials over the past two decades have overturned or significantly revised many of the supplement claims and health recommendations presented here. Some advice that once seemed promising has since been shown to be ineffective or even potentially harmful when applied broadly.
If you are interested in the history of the anti-aging movement, this book has value.
If you are looking for current, evidence-based guidance on health, longevity, cognition, or disease prevention, I would strongly recommend choosing a more recent book grounded in modern clinical data.
February 11, 2019
E o carte bună, se descrie detaliat despre acțiunea radicalilor liberi și antioxidanților, vitaminele și mineralele. Cu toate că nu am aflat mai nimic nou, e bine de adus aminte.
October 27, 2008
This health book explains what different supplements can do for you, and also different foods. Supplements are confusing because they are not FDA-regulated. (They are supposed to start regulating in 2010.) Consumer Reports (ConsumerLab.com) does, however. Of those vitamin-mineral supplements tested, at least one had lead in them, and others did not have the nutrient in the amount they claimed. The brands that tested good were Centrum Silver (by Wyeth) and One-a-Day Womens (by Bayer), and Flintstones.
In her book, she interviews several doctors and health professionals, and most agree that you should at least take a daily multivitamin-mineral supplement, along with eating fruits & veggies, fatty fish at least 3X/wk, green tea (they also suggest black & white teas), soybean foods daily or at least 2-3X/wk (about 1 cup/day), restrict calories for adults to maintain a lower than normal weight, restrict the wrong fats (meats, dairy, polyunsaturated fats, partially-hydrogenated & hydrogenated fats) (use almost exclusively olive oil, canola oil, macadamia nut oil, flax oil, and other monounsaturated fats), cook meat in the right way (best way is to poach or slow-cook as in a crockpot, but if you eat other ways, be sure to serve with antioxidant veggies, or add ½ c reconstituted TVP to 1 lb ground beef for hamburgers, etc), restrict alcohol, curb sweets, and eat 1 clove fresh garlic or garlic capsules (such as Kyolic or Kwai ) daily. I MIGHT ADD THAT EATING HERBS & SPICES DAILY IS, IN MY OPINION, ONE OF THE BEST THINGS THAT YOU CAN DO. (It's amazing how many healthy properties they have.)
In her book, she interviews several doctors and health professionals, and most agree that you should at least take a daily multivitamin-mineral supplement, along with eating fruits & veggies, fatty fish at least 3X/wk, green tea (they also suggest black & white teas), soybean foods daily or at least 2-3X/wk (about 1 cup/day), restrict calories for adults to maintain a lower than normal weight, restrict the wrong fats (meats, dairy, polyunsaturated fats, partially-hydrogenated & hydrogenated fats) (use almost exclusively olive oil, canola oil, macadamia nut oil, flax oil, and other monounsaturated fats), cook meat in the right way (best way is to poach or slow-cook as in a crockpot, but if you eat other ways, be sure to serve with antioxidant veggies, or add ½ c reconstituted TVP to 1 lb ground beef for hamburgers, etc), restrict alcohol, curb sweets, and eat 1 clove fresh garlic or garlic capsules (such as Kyolic or Kwai ) daily. I MIGHT ADD THAT EATING HERBS & SPICES DAILY IS, IN MY OPINION, ONE OF THE BEST THINGS THAT YOU CAN DO. (It's amazing how many healthy properties they have.)
July 9, 2013
This is one the type of self help books I like when it comes to health. It goes into detail where the author is speaking to us like we understand. She doesn't use what I call fifty cent words we have to look up or skim over and hope to understand the message without the aggravation. Then, when you've read the entire book, there are pages you can bookmark to go back to that will give you the basic information she is trying to share with you. If you are not a reader, especially when it comes to these types of books, this book will work for you. It also repeats information which is the authors way of teaching us something without letting us know that's what she is doing. She does it so smoothly you don't realize you've read this information before. At least I didn't until I went to look over the bookmarks again just recently. Jean Carper's articles were in the supplement to the Winston paper years ago and I never read an article that didn't share something I had not heard before or that I didn't enjoy. But this is what Ms. Carper does. She is a medical journalist and she is very talented in turning science research into informative reading for the everyday person.
July 27, 2012
When my Dads second wife died of breast cancer, I kept this book from among her things. The copyright is 1995, so some of the info may be outdated. However, I still refer to it from time to time, as I find it to be a storage house of vitamin, herb and health promoting information.
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September 19, 2015
Fantastic!
Very Good! I was very happy to learn that I have been doing the right things . The facts mirrored what my own investigation .
Very Good! I was very happy to learn that I have been doing the right things . The facts mirrored what my own investigation .
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