Aging Well by George Vaillant, Little, Brown, $24.95, ISBN
0316989363
“TRY and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and
then, get some walking in and try and live together in peace and harmony…”
That was Monty Python’s advice in The Meaning of Life. Most books that
claim to reveal the secret of successful living could be summarised in as few
words, but there can’t be many that are based on more than 60 years tracking the
lifestyle, mental and physical health of hundreds of people as they aged.
In Aging Well, Harvard professor…
