Praise for this book

Are you fifty (the “old half-way point”)? Or perhaps beyond? Or coming up on it? If so, this nifty little book by Michael Gloth—with mouthwatering recipes contributed by Master Chef Rudy Speckamp—should be on your near-term reading list. Dr. Gloth, a distinguished internist and geriatrician at Johns Hopkins, has assembled a concise, to the point, on the mark volume of information and advice to help you live your life at the peak of health and enjoyment from this day forward.

Rarely does such advice hit home with so much that is practical, scientifically sound, and integrated into life as best lived: take care of your body, mind, and spirit, exercise all each day with vigor and insight, eat well, and enjoy it all to the very end. So read on and live!”— William R. Hazzard, MD, Director Geriatrics & Extended Care, University of Washington

This is a valuable contribution and will help those who read it…Dr. Gloth’s book provides practical and reasoned advice as how best to get started and sustain an effective program…The book is easy to read and the sidebar notations are very useful and allow one easily to refresh what they read previously. I liked the recipes dispersed throughout the book as a reminder to the reader that staying fit after fifty is a well planned and sustained program of health behaviors, diet and exercise. Well done.”— John Burton, MD, Director, Johns Hopkins Geriatric Education Center

…a practical, enjoyable book on how to lose weight by combining diet and exercise. My wife and I prepared several of the recipes. I couldn’t believe that they were actually healthy! Who would have thought that a Penne al Aglio as made by Chef Rudy Speckamp would be so delicious yet sparse in calories…Dr. Michael Gloth describes, with illustrations, the kind of exercise that can be safely and effectively performed by senor citizens such as I. Read this book—you’ll love it!”— Isadore Rosenfeld, MD, Professor of Clinical Medicine (Cardiology), Weill Medical College

…does a good job explaining how our bodies function after age 50. There are lots of helpful hints on how to maintain a healthy diet and lifestyle…”— Amazon *****

I have a collection of diet and exercise books, and this is the best ever. I am giving it to all my friends in their sixties and seventies. They are the ones who complain about gaining weight without eating more, and most of them already exercise…easy to read, and the pictures make it easy to try the exercises…”— Amazon *****

Not for your coffee table—a book to live with. My early reviewer’s copy of Fit at Fifty and Beyond, extruding a dozen colorful markers, creased along its thin spine on the front cover, stained with juice on the lower edge and stocked with gritty black and white photographs of people over 50 exercising, is not a pretty book. It is the kind of book that one lives with, not the kind that sits unread on the coffee table.

The text, like the rest of the book, is plain, straightforward and lacking any kind of gimmicks. I love it. At just 168 pages, Fit at Fifty and Beyond is an exercise book on a diet—all facts and no puffery….I felt throughout the book as if I could trust [Dr. Gloth] to give me the unvarnished scientific facts of diet and exercise…Thanks to Rudy Speckamp, C.M.C. this handy little book includes recipes from an award-winning chef, at the end of chapters like a treat for your progress, and a whole chapter of them later in the book.

If you or someone you know is turning 50, this book would be a useful gift, but it could help any adult design their own effective diet and exercise program.”— Amazon *****