Live Long, Die Short (39 page)

5.
 Ellen Langer,
Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility
(New York: Ballantine Books, 2009).

6.
 Anna S. Mueller, et al, “Sizing up Peers: Adolescent Girls’ Weight Control and Social Comparison in the School Context,”
Journal of Health and Social Behavior
51 (1): 64–78, 2010.

7.
 Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler, “The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network over 32 Years,”
New England Journal of Medicine
357: 370–379, July 26, 2007.

8.
 Richard Louv,
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder
(Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2008).

Tip 2

1.
 John R. Pleis, Jacqueline W. Lucas, Brian W. Ward,
Summary Health Statistics for U.S. Adults: National Health Interview Survey
, Series Reports from the National Health Interview Survey #10, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, p. 11,
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/ sr_10/sr10_242.pdf
.

2.
 Pleis et al.,
Summary Health Statistics.

3.
 Frank W. Booth, Scott E. Gordon, Christian J. Carlson, and Marc T. Hamilton, “Waging War on Modern Chronic Diseases: Primary Prevention Through Exercise Biology,”
Journal of Applied Physiology
88, 774–787, 2000,
http://jap.physiology.org/content/ 88/2/774.full.pdf
.

4.
 Frank W. Booth and Manu V. Chakravarthy, “Cost and Consequences of Sedentary Living: New Battleground For an Old Enemy,” President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports’s
Research Digest,
series 3, no. 16, March 2002.

5.
 Adapted from “Chronic Diseases Caused or Enhanced by Three Risk Factors: Smoking, Obesity, and Sedentary Lifestyle” in “Expanding Your Model: Optimizing Referrals and Introducing Disease Management” by Linda K. Hall, in William E. Kraus and Steven J. Keteyian, eds.,
Cardiac Rehabilitation
(Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 2007), 258.

6.
 Booth and Chakravarthy, “Cost and Consequences,” 4.

7.
 Russell R. Pate, Michael Platt, Steven N. Blair, et al., “Physical Activity and Public Health—A Recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American College of Sports Medicine,”
Journal of the American Medical Association
273 (5): 402–407, February 1995.

8.
 J. Michael McGinnis and William H. Foege, “Actual Causes of Death in the United States,”
Journal of the American Medical Association
270 (18): 2207–2212, November 1993.

Tip 3

1.
 Alvaro Fernandez and Elkhonon Goldberg,
The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness
(San Francisco: SharpBrains, 2009).

2.
 
MedicineNet.com
, definition of “neuroplasticity,”
http://www.medterms.com/script/ main/art.asp?articlekey=40362
.

3.
 Jill Bolte Taylor,
My Stroke of Insight
(New York: Penguin, 2006).

4.
 Eileen Luders, Arthur W. Toga, Natasha Lepore, and Christian Gaser, “The Underlying Anatomical Correlates of Long-term Meditation: Larger Hippocampal and Frontal Volumes of Gray Matter,”
Neuroimage
45, (3): 672–678, April 15, 2009.

5.
 David Snowdon,
Aging with Grace
(New York: Bantam, 2001).

6.
 Fiona Matthews, Carol Brayne, et al., “A Two Decade Comparison of Prevalence of Dementia in Individuals Aged 65 Years and Older from Three Geographical Areas in England: Results of the Cognitive Function and Ageing Study 1 & 2,”
The Lancet
(July 17, 2013), doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61570-6; Kaare Christensen et al., “Physical and Cognitive Functioning of People Older Than 90 Years: A Comparison of Two Danish Cohorts Born 10 Years Apart,”
The Lancet
(July 11, 2013), doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60777-1.

7.
 Robert Winningham,
Train Your Brain
(Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing Company, 2010).

8.
 Guy McKhann and Marilyn Albert,
Keep Your Brain Young
(Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2002).

9.
 Sandra Bond Chapman,
Make Your Brain Smarter
(New York: Free Press, 2013).

10.
 PBS/Santa Fe Productions,
The Distracted Mind, with Dr. Adam Gazzaley,
2013.

11.
 Youfa Wang, M. A. Beydoun, and H. A. Beydoun, “Obesity and Central Obesity as Risk Factors for Incident Dementia and Its Subtypes,”
Obesity Reviews,
9 (3): 204–218, May 2008.

12.
 Chapman,
Make Your Brain Smarter.

Tip 4

1.
 Robert Wright,
The Moral Animal
(New York: Vintage, 1994).

2.
 Paul MacLean,
The Triune Brain in Evolution
(New York: Plenum Press, 1990).

3.
 Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon,
A General Theory of Love
(New York: Random House, 2000).

4.
 Robert Kahn and Toni Antonucci, “Convoys Over the Life Course: Attachment, Roles, and Social Support,”
Life-Span Development and Behavior,
3: 253–286, June 1980.

5.
 Nicholas Baker, Florian Wolschin, and Gro Amdam, “Age-Related Learning Deficits Can Be Reversible in Honeybees
Apis mellifera,” Experimental Gerontology,
47 (10): 764–772, October 2012.

6.
 Giacomo Rizzolatti and Laila Craighero, “The Mirror-Neuron System,”
Annual Review of Neuroscience,
27: 169–192, July 2004.

7.
 Robert Putnam,
Bowling Alone
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000).

8.
 L. F. Glass and T. Berkman, “Social Integration, Social Networks, Social Support and Health,”
Social Epidemiology
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).

9.
 Putnam,
Bowling Alone.

10.
 William B. Malarkey, Ronald Glaser, Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser, and Phillip T. Marucha, “Behavior: The Endocrine-Immune Interface and Health Outcomes,”
Advances in Psychosomatic Medicine,
22: 104–115, 2001.

11.
 Seligman, Martin, “Boomer Blues”
Psychology Today,
October 1988.

12.
 Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Timothy Smith, and J. Bradley Layton, “Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-Analytic Review,”
PLOS Medicine
7, July 2010.

13.
 Kevin Hogan and Ron Stubbs,
Can’t Get Through: 8 Barriers to Communication
(Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 2003).

14.
 Miller McPherson, Matthew Brashears, and Lynn Smith-Lovin, “Social Isolation in America: Changes in Core Discussion Networks over Two Decades,”
American Sociological Review,
71: 353–375, June 2006.

15.
 Sherry Turkle,
Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other
(New York: Basic Books, 2011).

Tip 5

1.
 J. Michael McGinnis and William H. Foege, “Actual Causes of Death in the United States,”
Journal of the American Medical Association
270 (18): 2207–2212, November 1993.

2.
 Sun Tzu,
The Art of War,
translated by Samuel B. Griffith (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963).

3.
 Sarah French, Michael Rosenberg, and Matthew Knuiman, “The Clustering of Health Risk Behaviours in a Western Adult Population,”
Health Promotion Journal of Australia
3 (19): 203–209, December 2008.

4.
 Robert M. Sapolsky, foreword to Bruce McEwen,
The End of Stress As We Know It
(Atlanta, GA: Joseph Henry Press, 2002).

5.
 Bruce McEwen,
The End of Stress As We Know It
(Atlanta, GA: Joseph Henry Press, 2002).

6.
 McEwen,
End of Stress.

7.
 Sheldon Cohen, Denise Janicki-Deverts, and Gregory Miller, “Psychological
Stress and Disease,”
Journal of the American Medical Association
298 (14): 1687–1689, October 2007.

8.
 Roland Sturm,
The Health Risks of Obesity: Worse Than Smoking, Drinking, or Poverty,
RAND Health research brief, 2002,
http://www.rand.org/pubs/ research_briefs/RB4549.html
.

9.
 Solomon H. Katz,
Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
(Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2003).

10.
 United States Department of Agriculture,
http://www.choosemyplate.gov
.

Tip 6

1.
 Bradley J. Willcox, D. Craig Willcox, and Makoto Suzuki,
The Okinawa Program
(New York: Three Rivers Press, 2001).

2.
 Ellen J. Langer,
Counterclockwise
(New York: Ballantine, 2009).

Tip 7

1.
 Viktor Frankl,
The Doctor and the Soul
(New York: Vintage, 1986).

2.
 Harold G. Koenig, Michael E. McCullough, and David Larson,
Handbook of Religion and Health
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).

3.
 Thomas Moore,
Care of the Soul
(New York: HarperCollins, 1992).

4.
 Lars Tornstam,
Gerotranscendence
(New York: Springer, 2005).

5.
 Harry Moody,
The Five Stages of the Soul
(New York: Anchor, 1997).

6.
 Eckhart Tolle,
The Power of Now
(New World Library/Namaste Publishing, 1999).

7.
 Robert Sapolsky,
Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers
(New York: Holt, 1994).

8.
 Tolle,
Power of Now.

9.
 Moore,
Care of the Soul.

10.
 Eileen Luders, Arthur W. Toga, Natasha Lepore, and Christian Gaser, “The Underlying Anatomical Correlates of Long-term Meditation: Larger Hippo-campal and Frontal Volumes of Gray Matter,”
Neuroimage
45 (3): 672–678, April 15, 2009.

11.
 McEwen,
End of Stress.

12.
 McEwen,
End of Stress
.

Tip 8

1.
 Erik Erikson,
Childhood and Society
(New York: Norton, 1950).

2.
 Erik Erikson, Joan Erikson, and Helen Kivnick,
Vital Involvement in Old Age
(New York: Norton, 1986).

3.
 Eden Alternative website, “Our Ten Principles,” accessed July 30, 2013,
http://www.edenalt.org/our- 10-principles
.

4.
 Robert Grimm Jr., Kimberly Spring, and Nathan Dietz,
The Health Benefits of Volunteering: A Review of Recent Research
(Washington, DC: Corporation
for National and Community Service, Office of Research and Policy Development y, 2007).

5.
 “The Value of Volunteering,” Masterpiece Living, accessed August 14, 2013,
http://www.mymasterpieceliving.com/index.cfm? fuseaction=content.Successful_Aging _Data_Revelations
.

6.
 Steven Cole, et al., “A Functional Genomic Perspective on Human Well-Being,”
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
110 (33): 13684–13689, published ahead of print, July 29, 2013.

7.
 Richard Leider,
The Power of Purpose
(San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2004).

8.
 Mark Gerzon,
Coming Into Our Own
(New York: Delacorte, 1992).

Tip 9

1.
 “Humana and KaBoom! Kick Off 2nd Annual Multigenerational Playground Builds,” Humana press release, September 20, 2012,
http://press.humana.com/press-release/ current-releases/humana-and-ka- boom-kick-2nd-annual- multigenerational-playground-builds
.

2.
 Joseph Tierney, Jean Baldwin Grossman, and Nancy Resch,
Making a Difference: An Impact Study of Big Brothers Big Sisters
(Philadelphia, PA: Public/Private Ventures, 2000).

3.
 Elza Maria de Souza, “Intergenerational Integration, Social Capital and Health: A Theoretical Framework and Results from a Qualitative Study,”
Ciencia & Saluda Coletiva
16 (3): 1733–1744, March 2011.

4.
 Janice Lloyd, “Temple University Achieves Intergenerational Excellence,”
USA Today
, October 24, 2011.

Tip 10

1.
 Hans Selye,
The Stress of Life
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978).

2.
 Norman Cousins,
Anatomy of an Illness
(New York: Norton, 1979).

3.
 Thomas Perls and Paola Sebastiani, “The Genetics of Extreme Longevity: Lessons from the New England Centenarian Study,”
Frontiers in Genetics
3, article 277, November 2012.

4.
 Jeanie Lerche Davis, “Why Do We Laugh,” WebMD feature,
http://men.webmd.com/features/ why-do-we-laugh
.

5.
 L. Berk, D. Felten, S. Tan, B. Bittman, and J. Westengard, “Modulation of Neuroimmune Parameters During the Eustress of Humor-associated Mirthful Laughter,”
Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine
7: 62–72, 74–6. 2001.

6.
 R. I. M. Dunbar et al., “Social Laughter Correlated with an Elevated Pain Threshold,”
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences,
279 (1731): 1161–1167, March 2012.

7.
 American Physiological Society, “Laughter Remains Good Medicine,”
Science Daily,
April 17, 2009.

8.
 Dalai Lama,
My Spiritual Journey
(New York: HarperCollins, 2011).

9.
 Langer,
Counterclockwise.

Chapter 16

1.
 Ken Dychtwald,
Age Power
(New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 1999).

2.
 Bill Thomas, “Eldertopia,” AARP International’s
The Journal,
Summer 2011.

3.
 Zalman Schachter-Shalomi,
From Age-ing to Sage-ing
(New York: Warner Books, 1995).

4.
 David Gutman,
Reclaimed Powers
(New York: Basic Books, 1987).

5.
 John R. Beard, Simon Biggs, David E. Bloom, Linda P. Fried, Paul Hogan, Alexandre Kalache, and S. Jay Olshansky, eds.,
Global Population Ageing: Peril or Promise
(Geneva: World Economic Forum, 2011).