The Attitude Factor: Extend your life by changing the way you think

Happiness and good health can decline or improve with age depending upon important mental habits learned in childhood. We unconsciously mimic our parents attitudes towards aging. If they were vital and energetic in old age, then we will tend to be also. But if they were frail, we will probably adopt their cautious way of moving. This causes our muscles and bones to weaken, making us frail also. The "use it or lose it" principle definitely applies. Exercises at the end of each chapter help you to reexamine things you "used to" enjoy doing. Often the reason you stopped turns out to be no longer valid.