How You Control Your Health - Part 2

February 17, 2010

Interview with William Sears, M.D., author of the book Prime-Time Health: A Scientifically Proven Plan for Feeling Young and Living Longer

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Mike Carruthers:
To be healthy you can’t go wrong following mom’s advice.

William Sears, M.D.:
You know (your) mother summed this up years ago when she said, “Eat your fruits and veggies and go outside and play” – that was the key to health at all ages.

Dr. William Sears, author of the book Prime-Time Health, says when it comes to eating healthy it’s more than just eating the right food.

In fact one of the healthiest little simple rules of eating - I call it my rule of 2’s... eat twice as often, eat half as much and chew twice as long. It stabilizes your blood sugar, it stabilizes your blood insulin and stable blood insulin is the key to healthy aging.

Dr. Sears has a philosophy on handling stress that seems to improve your health and that philosophy is…

Life is full of problems but if you can’t change it I don’t worry about it. And I got that idea actually from a survey of centenarians, people who live to 100, but not only live long but live well - and that was one of their common themes. “If I can’t change it I don’t worry about it.”

We often look at staying healthy as a chore but Dr. Sears says, health is actually a fascinating topic. So his suggestion…

Make health your hobby. As we get older we need a hobby anyway and what better hobby could you have than health.
 

To hear the complete unedited interview, click here