Younger Next Year - A Guide to Living Like 50 Until You’re 80 and Beyond
Workman Publishing Company, Inc.
708 Broadway
New York, NY 10003-9555
First Printing - October, 2004

This is a book on how to successfully stave off usual
deterioration of the body as we age. The authors are
Chris Crowley, former litigator with a New York law
firm who was 70 when he co-authored the book.

The second author is Dr. Henry S. Lodge, M. D. a board
certified internist who heads a twenty-three doctor
practice in Manhattan. Dr. Lodge is a member of the
clinical faculty at Columbia University’s College of
Physicians and Surgeons.

In the book, Dr. Lodge reviews new research on how
exercise affects the body at the cellular level. This
is an interesting and very compelling way to look at
exercise, often given only cursory mention in most
writing on fitness.

Dr. Lodge looks at our long, long evolutionary past,
noting conditions of life for man have very recently
changed drastically. For two or three million years,
depending on where one feels we became “human,”
getting food was first priority for us every day.

Under this urgency, we had to be fit and were forced
to walk, climb and run every day. Suddenly, on the
scale of evolutionary time, this necessity
disappeared. But we were left with a body whose
functionality was designed solely around its former
method of feeding - walking, climbing and running.
The body design we inherited is totally inappropriate
for our modern surroundings, mainly abundant food and
little need for strenuous movement.

That in a nutshell is the core of our “health
problems” today. That and what we eat - unnatural,
salty foods filled with saturated fat and often
deficient in required vitamins and minerals vital for
our hunter-gatherer body.

Taken together - our diet and the huge reduction in
need for strenuous movement - we have the perfect
prescription for today’s common place, deadly
illnesses of cancer, heart and artery disease,
diabetes and related maladies.

Chris Crowley, 70, supplies the example of what can
happen when an aging person eats right and exercises
vigorously. He tells about his experience of changing
life style and enjoying new sports and ways of eating.

This book is well grounded in the latest science
regarding cellular change in response to exercise.
And it’s a fun read with Crowley’s antidotes and
humor.

Reviewer - William P. Gloege
Santa Maria, CA