Dr. David Snowdon, an epidemiologist in 1986, embarked on a groundbreaking research experiment that would forever transform the way we view aging and old age. This groundbreaking long-term study venture, called the Nun Experiment because it includes a special group of 678 Catholic nuns, stands at the forefront of some of the world’s most relevant work on aging. The results of the Nun Studys are now helping researchers discover the keys of a shorter, safer existence. But Aging With Grace is more than just a visionary book on nutrition and hard science. It’s an altar boy’s story who grew up as a scholar researching the impact of aging on nuns. It’s the nuns’ own touching and motivational stories. Such extraordinary ladies between the ages of 75 and 104 gave Dr. Snowdon access to their h medical records and promised to donate their brains after death. They join Dr. Snowdon on his tender visits with nuns like Sister Clarissa in Aging With Grace, who at the age of 90 rides around the convent in a motorized cart she calls her Chevrolet and learns as much about baseball as any die-hard fan a third of her age. All state-of-the-art research and a personal prescription of optimism, Aging With Grace reveals that old age does not have to mean an imminent fall into sickness and disability; instead, it may be a time of prosperity and efficiency, mental and religious vigor, and remaining illness-free.
