In general most humans survive all that is thrown at them through life, but sometimes not all events can bring us out on the healthy side of aging.
This is were the author Esther Winterfeldt book is giving you a guide to preserving good mental health.
She takes you through a very interesting chapter talking about the aging process and what happens to your body, like heart muscles thickening with age, also arteries tend to stiffen as you process through those golden years.
One chapter is about the “Brain and how it functions” this is a very important issue that you may not know, even with healthy eating, the brain will age with loss of some of the structures that connect the nerve cells, thats not all bad as now with recent studies there has been some breakthroughs and it’s true that the adult nervous system is capable of producing new cells, but the exact conditions is yet to be proven, so just keep making your brain working every day, as without our brain, life is very unsatisfactory and your body will start to show the labors of memory loss and will deteriorate with aging.
To keep good mental health, you need to keep challenging the body and mind, as the years go-by it does take longer to remember, also how to learn new things, just take it slowly, a little bit of new knowledge, at a time, because too much information too quickly can be overwhelming to some elderly humans, if they feel lost along the way it makes them feel bad and they reject all new challenges and that is bad for the person, by not being in good mental health, they won’t try to learn new things, they will feel as though the world is against them, and start rejecting every thing around them, putting them in a bad mental state.
There are ten chapters in this book :
The Aging Process,
The Brain and how it Functions
Mind – Body Connection
Effects of Chronic
Diseases and Medications
Nutrition: Vitamins, Minerals, Antioxidants
Food for the Brain
Lifestyle and the Brain
Strengthening Cognitive Functions
Looking towards the Future
Esther covers so much in this book, the emphasis is on Mental Health and the factors that have been shown to have an effect on the aging process.
Nutrition is stressed, the information is right up to date, with modern developments in good mental health, as it was released February 1, 2014.