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Sod 70! - The Book

Reset your body, live well

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How does it feel to be sixty?   I was asked this on the morning of my sixtieth birthday,  not just once but repeatedly, and at the fourth or fifth asking I answered, or shouted:  ‘Oh, feck sixty, what does chronological age matter?  It just means you have to become more active.’

I then started to write a book called ‘Feck Sixtyy’, wondering how it would be positioned on the  bookshop shelves, but busyness overtook me and it was never finished .  In 2014, the year I became seventy I determined to finish the job , and then a decision was made that Sod Seventy sounded better, from the point of view of alliteration! So here it is Sod70! , paper or Kindle and remember you don't need to own a Kindle to use the Kindle software. Give it as a present and if the person who is going to become or is already 70, or 70+, is not online help them get online!

CONTENTS 

Chapter 1:  Ageing is not a major problem

            Beware the fitness gap
            Ageing and disease are different processes
            What you believe matters

Chapter 2:  Don’t worry about ageing – take action to get fitter

            What is fitness?
            The Five S Fitness Programme
            Designing your daily programme
                        Choose your timing
                        For the shoulders
                        For the neck
                        For upper limb strength
                        For core body strength
                        For the hips
                        For the knees
                        For stretchable hamstrings and calves
            Improve your pSychological fitness

Chapter 3:  The art of body maintenance

             New Year resolutions           
             Brain maintenance
             Memory maintenance
             Digestive system and liver maintenance
            Hearing maintenance
            Heart maintenance
            Bone maintenance
            Joint maintenance
            Muscle maintenance
            Lung maintenance
            Foot maintenance
            Metabolic maintenance
            Sexual health maintenance
            Skin maintenance
            Spine maintenance
            Waterworks maintenance
            Tooth and gum maintenance
            Vision maintenance

Chapter 4:  Choosing and using healthcare wisely

            Too much medicine
            Not enough medicine
            Getting the right care for you
                        Be clear about what matters most to you
                        Ask for clear, high quality information on the risks and benefits
                        Do your own research
                        Reflect on the decision, take your time
           The Decision Checklist
           Right care for people aged seventy plus
                        Vaccination
                        Reducing Risk
                        Living healthily with a chronic condition
                        Use Medicines Wisely
            What about alternative and complementary medicine?

Chapter 5:  Living well and dying well

            Mood maintenance
            Planning a good death 
            Define yourself or be defined

The reaction has been positive and here are some examples 

the Guardian 
the Daily Mail 
the Daily Mirror
the Today programme  with the wonderful Green Goddess
 

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