Illustrated with over 300 full-colour photographs, many of them step-by-step, this is a health and fitness guide for the over-forties. It shows you how to achieve and maintain optimal health by making simple lifestyle changes. Focusing on how you can maximise your physical, mental and emotional well-being and containing the latest expert advice on the foods, activities, therapies, drugs and procedures that retard ageing and make you feel fantastic, this book shows you how to take control of your health, improve your quality of life and enjoy living longer. Practical advice is highlighted in special boxes throughout, plus special Action Programmes that can easily fit into every day schedules. Topics include: nutrition; self-image; optimal health and disease prevention; happiness and self-fulfilment; and mental agility, memory and the senses.