The Lazarus Strategy (below), healthy ageing researcher and Professor at the Centre for Human and Applied Physiological Sciences, King's College London. Lazarus is a reference to Lazarus of Bethany. In the Bible, Lazarus of Bethany was resurrected by Jesus 4 days after his death. This is why Lazarus spawns with 1 extra life. The waiter arrived with the soup course, but Lazarus put down his spoon and folded up the napkin. It was time to get serious about getting healthy, before it was too late. Fast-forward to now: Lazarus is a twinkly-eyed, sprightly 84-year-old. Healthwise, he’s in the pink. He’s an endurance cyclist, has recently published a book, and is still working at King’s College London on unravelling the secrets of healthy ageing. His wife, June, who joined him on his health journey, is 87 and also has no age-related illnesses. After his resurrection, any health up items will help. Lazarus Risen initially has only 1 heart, therefore he is rather fragile.

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Those lovely children that 45-year-olds are now raising are going to have to spend a lot of their time worrying about their aged parents. I think that can be avoided." Digital Reads A Curse For True Love : the thrilling final book in the Once Upon a Broken Heart series Yes, but I’d just like quantify that a little bit first. Obviously, there are lots of diseases which can affect us as humans, some of them are genetic and we have no control over them, others are behaviour related and depend on how we conduct ourselves as adults. There is no doubt that anyone can turn their life around, it’s simply a matter of changing behaviours and consequently altering the course of these diseases. Of course, if you already have a disease related to behaviour, then it is more difficult, because you’re working against that disease, but even under adverse conditions, you can still begin to ameliorate many conditions and improve your health in general. Thirty years ago, a 54-year-old medical scientist and British health bureaucrat named Norman Lazarus was settling down to a nice dinner with his wife while on holiday in Switzerland. As he put his napkin on his lap, he saw the bulge of his middle-aged belly protruding over his belt.

Eating on the other hand, is slightly more difficult because the advice we get about diet is so mixed, and consumption of food is ingrained in our culture too. If you walk down the street, people are eating, if you invite somebody to your house, you will likely offer them something to eat, if you do anything or go anywhere, there’s food involved, and the message we’re constantly being sent is, you must eat. To be sociable to be integrated into society, and that message is totally wrong. He isn’t prescriptive in the book, but he says that getting to that point about three days a week, for about an hour a time, should do it. Plus some resistance training (light weights). It can be a solid strategy to let yourself purposefully die at the beginning to become Lazarus Risen and obtain stronger stats, although you will be revived on the spot and have only 1 heart container.

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And, as with nutrition, he has a pro tip: “The other thing is, and this is absolutely crucial, you’ve got to enjoy it.” Damocles is less dangerous than for most of the characters as Lazarus already starts with an extra life. Lazarus Risen's next floor art, in which he is crying about a bad memory, has blood tears, rather than the normal tears.Do you really believe it’s possible for anyone to turn around their health and fitness at any time in their life? The RRP is the suggested or Recommended Retail Price of a product, set by the publisher or manufacturer. The Lazarus Strategy builds on his many years of physiological research to reveal the path to a more active, productive, independent future life free of medication. This remarkable book shows how the different lifestyle choices we make now will determine our experience of ageing through our golden years – and how fast. Firstly, of course you ought to be eating the correct foods to stay fit and healthy. Then the next step is to ask yourself, are you currently at a healthy weight and body mass? If not, then the simplest piece of advice I can offer, is to stop eating so much. There are many books out there that go into great detail about precisely what you should and should not eat, but to keep it simple, a good rule of thumb is to eat less.

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As Professor at the Centre for Human and Applied Physiological Sciences at King’s College London, Dr Norman Lazarus is an expert on the physiology of healthy human ageing. And if that isn’t enough to convince you that his advice is worth heeding, the fact that he represents living proof that, well into your 80s, it’s possible to lead an active and medication-free lifestyle, should be. His book, The Lazarus Strategy: How to Age Well and Wisely (Hachette Australia), is plain-speaking and impassioned. Get started, and get started now – not just for your own sake, but for the sake of our societies’ struggling health systems and ageing demographics. Dr Norman Lazarus, 87, is an exception. As an expert on the physiology of healthy human ageing, he is living proof that our later years can be lived well. Even as an octogenarian, Dr Lazarus continues to lead an active lifestyle free of medication, with regular walking and cycling. I think, above all else, it’s important to remember how much of your life is within your own control. It’s just a matter of finding the motivation and desire to change it for the better.’Norman Lazarus, 84, likens his fitness routine to "asset management in a bear environment". Liz Seabrook Lazarus deployed his medical know-how to develop a simple “trinity” of actions that, if started during middle-age, give you a solid shot at warding off the 20 or so avoidable diseases of age, including cardiovascular disease, pre-stroke hypertension, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, dementia, non-alcoholic liver disease, peripheral artery disease, and certain kinds of cancers. Let’s consider each of these factors individually and the patterns of behaviour around them that we might have already adopted.’ Prepare not to be particularly surprised by the answer. Eat less, and eat smart. Exercise more, and regularly. And pay regard to your mental health.

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Live stronger for longer with insight from The Lazarus Strategy, part how-to manual, part manifesto. This guide to the art of healthy ageing can help readers along the path to a more active, productive, independent future.

At 50, you’ll enjoy the feeling of getting fitter, he says. But at 75 or 80, you have to accept the feeling of being able to do a bit less. Don’t rage against the dying of the light – just keep going, because you enjoy it. If 40-to-45-year-olds don’t put in the trinity now, you are going to suffer from at least three diseases,” he says. "It means that those extra years you are going to live are going to be taken up with doctors’ appointments, queueing for medicines and relying on those around you. The first thing you should say to yourself is, am I exercising? If the answer’s no, you’re missing one of the crucial necessities that humans commonly neglect when it comes to health. The truth is exercise is what directed the human species to evolve and survive in the first place. If you couldn’t chase your prey you wouldn’t survive, it’s as simple as that. And our whole physiology in terms of evolution is designed to chase, this means regular increases in heart-rate are vital to overall health. The messages that come out saying, 'If you eat quinoa, this is a magic new food, and these magical foods will make your immune system go through the roof' – it’s false news. All you’ve really got to do is eat the correct number of calories for your age and gender.” Sign up for our newsletter to receive the latest Yellow Kite Books news, author exclusives, offers and competition details