In Improving With Age Professor Risteárd Mulcahy explores how exercise is increasingly important as we grow older. His account of his own involvement in running, cycling and exercising is both practical, inspiring and amusing.
This part memoir part practical guide is organised into three sections covering the importance of exercise, practical advice on exercise and most candidly the author's own experience with fitness in later life - he started jogging at fifty-one and ran his first marathon at sixty-one.
About the author: Professor Risteárd Mulcahy was head of the cardiology department and the heart disease research unit at St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin. He is a past president of the Irish Medical Association and was one of the founders of the Irish Heart Association. He also has a strong political background.
Risteárd has devoted much of his professional life researching the causes of coronary heart disease and has been active in the prevention of heart disease through healthy eating, regular aerobic exercise and the control of cigarette smoking. He has had a long-term interest in the health service in Ireland.
Other Risteárd Mulcahy books published by Liberties Press: Memoirs of a Medical Maverick and Is the Health Service for Healing?
ISBN: 954533526
