About the Author

Widely considered one of the world’s leading experts on the dietary link between the environment and health, John Robbins is the author of the million-copy bestseller Diet for a New America. His work has been the subject of cover stories and feature articles in the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and People. Robbins has been a featured and keynote speaker at hundreds of major conferences including those sponsored by the Sierra Club and UNICEF, and is the recipient of many awards, including the Rachel Carson Award and the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award. He is the founder of EarthSave International, a nonprofit organization dedicated to healthy food choices, preservation of the environment, and a more compassionate world. Robbins lives with his wife, Deo, their son, Ocean, and daughter-in-law, Michele, and their grand-twins River and Bodhi outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Reviews

“Read this book! Healthy at 100 is a masterpiece.”
–Dean Ornish, M.D.

“Healthy at 100 is a marvelous blend of wisdom, hope, courage, and common sense. John Robbins gives us caring, science, and inspiration–a beautiful diet for the heart.”
–Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart

“Commonsensical and scientifically sound . . . readers seeking that elusive fountain of youth would be wise to listen up.”
–Publishers Weekly

“Robbins marshals a great deal of excellent data from reputable scientific sources to support his arguments.”
–The Roanoke Times

“Thought-provoking . . . highly recommended.”
–Library Journal

"Read this book! Healthy at 100 is a masterpiece."
-Dean Ornish, M.D.

"Healthy at 100 is a marvelous blend of wisdom, hope, courage, and common sense. John Robbins gives us caring, science, and inspiration-a beautiful diet for the heart."
-Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart

"Commonsensical and scientifically sound . . . readers seeking that elusive fountain of youth would be wise to listen up."
-Publishers Weekly

"Robbins marshals a great deal of excellent data from reputable scientific sources to support his arguments."
-The Roanoke Times

"Thought-provoking . . . highly recommended."
-Library Journal

Robbins (Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth) looks to societies with the greatest proportion of centenarians for clues on increasing our own life and health spans. Unlike Sally Beare in 50 Secrets of the World's Longest Living People, he takes into consideration not only the length of life but also its quality. He argues that, although Americans are living longer than ever before, they are also taking longer to die than ever before. Too many of our elders, he writes, are spending too many years weak and sick. Alternately, the elders of the four native cultures he examines the Abkhazia, the Vilcabamba, the Hunza, and the Okinawans maintain lives that are both long and productive. These elders are a functioning part of their society and make necessary contributions to their families and communities. Robbins considers the ways they accomplish this and offers suggestions our own society would do well to follow. Thought-provoking enough to be a good choice for book discussion groups and highly recommended for public libraries. Susan B. Hagloch, formerly with the Tuscarawas Cty. P.L., New Philadelphia, OH Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.