We Live Too Short and Die Too Long How to Achieve and Enjoy Your Natural 100-Year-Plus Life Span

This quote begins We Live Too Short and Die Too Long because, as we age, we will each learn its fundamental truth. It is no secret that there is a sometimes unfathomable relationship between quality of life and length of life. Though Willard Scott brings us daily bulletins on another of our neighbors passing the century mark-hale, hearty and with all their wits about them-most of us accept daily aches, pains, and other limitations as simply part of the natural aging process. Dr. Walter M. Bortz wrote this book to challenge this assumption and others about how we age. With a generous and well-researched nod to human anthropology and a firm belief in the merit and effectiveness of preventative healthcare measures, We Live Too Short and Die Too Long will change your expectations for the human life span, showing we are physiologically designed to live well beyond the accepted 78 years, some of us having the ability to live to 120. It also disputes popular ideas about the physical nature of aging by explaining that the mental and physical "wear and tear" of age is not really age at all, but the result of disuse and sedentary lifestyles. We Live Too Short and Die Too Long shows that aging is neither affliction nor adversary, but part of our natural growth process, and that managing it well gives us what Dr. Bortz calls "the gift of found lifetime." This book is not simply about aging, it is about living. Book jacket.

Walter M. Bortz spent his career at Stanford University, where he holds the position of Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine