LIVE LONGER. LIVE BETTER
AT A GLANCE
Healthspan is the period of life spent in good health, free from chronic diseases and aging disabilities. We are living in a society where everything revolves around food. So it’s quite apt when authors and leading plant-based nutrition experts Julieanna Hever and Ray Cronise say in the introduction to their latest cookbook, The Healthspan Solutions, “Food is probably the single lifestyle modification anyone can make to significantly increase healthspan and add quality years of enjoyable life to the end.”
The duo hits the nail on the head when they say that one of the biggest problems in changing diets is the fact that the word 'diet' is synonymous with weight loss; and that sustaining a caloric deficit and eating for healthspan and weight maintenance are two completely unrelated goals and physiologies. After having spent over a decade researching diet and nutrition, analysing longevity studies, and helping their clients achieve sustainable, lasting health benefits by adopting a whole food, plant-based diet, comes The Healthspan Solution. 100 ordinary, sustainable plant-based recipes to choose from.
ROAD TEST
The first four chapters of the tome discuss the history and science of food; finding the ‘new normal’ of proactively choosing a permanently positive healthspan-centered lifestyle transformation over indulgent, unhealthy food habits; and implementing the ‘less is more’ strategy for longevity and healthspan with access to the right
