Counterclockwise
Categories: Health, Fitness & Dieting
Counterclockwise (2009) by Harvard psychologist Ellen J. Langer examines how changing the way people think about ageing and health can change their physical condition. Langer describes her 1979 study in which elderly men lived for a week in a setting recreating twenty years earlier and showed improvements in several measures. She argues that many limits are set by mindset rather than biology, and that people can take a more active role in their health.