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Show Don't freak out when you reach 40! There's absolutely no need to freak out when you reach the age of 40 or 50 or 60 or any other landmark birthday that strikes terror to your heart, says aging expert Eve Blake, whose extensive research on anti-aging techniques encourages encour-ages people to "kick the habit of old age." Ms. Blake, a world lecturer and author of Old Age is Contagious But You Don 't Have to Catch It, dedicates her work to the proposition that all people are created equal equal to kicking their aging fears and attitudes. "But you have to be willing," emphasizes empha-sizes Ms. Blake, "to kick with sufficient ferocity and, the earlier you start, the better." She cites the prediction of Dr. Irving S. Wright of New York-Cornell Medical Center who said, as far back as 1959, that "finding a productive, meaningful and happy life for elderly people whose lives are being prolonged by medical science may be more difficult than finding a cure for cancer." In light of this chilling prediction, preparation prep-aration for quality, not just quantity of life, is urgent, points out Ms. Blake, who also reminds readers of the newest statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau, which reveal that the number of 100 year olds liv- ing today will more than double by 1990. Giving lip service to the enormity of these statistics is a common practice among people. "But that is not enough," cautions Ms. Blake. "To kill off the aging 'virus' and make life energetic, vital and joyous, they must utilize specific life-strategies." An example of one of the more common com-mon toxic patterns of aging is the tendency to live in the past. "To head off this tendency," says Ms. Blake, "I have a technique that's practically practi-cally infallible and that is never to talk about any event good or bad that's more than one year old. "Of course," she laughs, "I get a great deal of flack on that one. Usually from people who love living in the past. AND usually they're old" She lists as critical trouble spots for most older people: How to stay young and vibrant in their thinking; how to keep their memory sharp and unclouded by forget-fulness; forget-fulness; how to keep their marriages or intimate relationships constantly fresh and zestful; how to gain and keep the love and devotion of their children; how to avoid the twin bugaboos of self-centeredness and self-pity; how to be a joyous participant partici-pant in life rather than a sluggish onlooker. During a 12-year lecture tour on Staying Stay-ing Young Feeling Young, Ms. Blake became increasingly concerned with finding find-ing solutions to these and other problems of aging. She developed a down-to-earth, easy-to-follow blueprint to show people of all ages how to increase their quality years and sustain vitality, not just longevity. Ms. Blake rose to prominence as a major Hollywood screenwriter for movies and TV. Top screen credits from MGM, RKO and Paramount weren't enough. Her inner need propelled her to search beyond surface glamour to deeper beauties and intrinsic life values. She challenged herself to make a lifetime contribution to humanity. Inspired by her work and its remarkable effect on people's lives, famous memory expert, Arthur Bornstein said, "Her book, Old Age is Contagious But You Don 't Have to Catch It should be committed to memory." Religious leaders, including Dr. A. Lee Henderson (Nashville, Tenn.) and Dr. Dale Batesole (Palm Springs, Cal.) called it, "Highly entertaining! Highly inspirational!" inspira-tional!" Plans are afoot to include the book in a time capsule for future generations, anticipating antici-pating that, by following the book's precepts, pre-cepts, we'll be frisking around in another 100 years to see the capsule opened. Old Age is Contagious But You Don 't Have to Catch It is available from Lee Publishing, 1354 Miller Place, Los Angeles, CA 90069, for $8.95 plus $2.00 shipping. |