The Canyon Ranch Guide To Living Younger Longer
A Complete Program For Optimal Health For Body, Mind And Spirit

TUCSON, AZ - August 1, 2001 - Not everyone can come to Canyon Ranch Health Resorts in Tucson, Arizona and Lenox, Massachusetts, but beginning this fall, anyone can take home the caring, expert advice of Canyon Ranch professionals with The Canyon Ranch Guide to Living Younger Longer: A Complete Program for Optimal Health for Body, Mind and Spirit (Simon & Schuster/Oct. 2001/$30.)

This comprehensive resource was written by Canyon Ranch staff members specializing in disciplines ranging from herbal medicine to sleep disorders and from exercise physiology to nutrition. The book features more than 300 pages of guidelines and recommended activities for creating an integrated, at-home health regimen encompassing exercise, nutrition, emotional health and spiritual fulfillment.

"Canyon Ranch is about the process of transformation, and this book is an accessible guide to that process. By putting everything we know about healthy living out there, our hope is to help many more people get the most out of their time on Earth," says Mel Zuckerman, Canyon Ranch founder and chairman of the board.

"Too many people wish they had better health, without recognizing that it is within their reach, or knowing how to realize their best intentions. Our mission is to help, and we know what works."

The profound wellness resources of the world's greatest health resort are packed into lively, practical chapters chockfull of advice, information and tips refined by more than 20 years' experience in empowering thousands of guests to choose health - the most joyful and liberating choice they'll ever make. It also contains encouraging, true success stories of Canyon Ranch's guests.

The Canyon Ranch Guide to Living Younger Longer features a foreward by Andrew Weil, M.D., a long-time associate of the Ranch and is introduced by Mel Zuckerman's moving story of his own awakening to health, and of the birth of Canyon Ranch. The impassioned vision behind the Ranch's legendary quality and phenomenal success is all there.

The ten chapters that follow are an everything-in-one-place resource for achieving optimal wellness and a more integrated, fulfilling life:

• Your mother was right: The five rules of basic health
• How to manage yourself - versus just trying to manage your stress
• Fitness for anyone, at any age - everything you need to develop a program you can live with
• Your aching back, knee, shoulder, etc. - how to fix the parts that hurt, step by step
• Movement as medicine: Basic Pilates and yoga programs to do at home
• Canyon Ranch healthy weight philosophy: Why diets don't work - and what does
• The 10 principles of healthy eating - and recipes from the famous kitchens of Canyon Ranch
• Therapeutic bodywork - the healing power of touch; how to find the bodywork you want; home-spa instructions and ideas
• Emotional and sexual intimacy: Practical approaches to nurturing healthy relationships in a hectic world
• Optimal aging: The latest research, and what it means for you

The Canyon Ranch Guide to Living Younger Longer was written by the staff of Canyon Ranch. Contributors include: Dan Baker, Ph.D.; Marcia Bernstein, M.S.W., B.C.D.; Philip S. Eichling, M.Th., M.D., M.P.H.; Jennifer Flora, M.S.; Rebecca Gorrell; Michael J. Hewitt, Ph.D.; Lana Holstein, M.D.; Robert Hughes, M.S.; Mark A. Hyman, M.D.; Kathleen Johnson, M.S., R.D.; Sue Kagel, R.N., B.S.N.; Evan W. Kligman, M.D.; Mark Liponis, M.D.; Marilyn Majchrzak, M.S., R.D.; Carol Marks; Lisa Powell, M.S., R.D.; Robert Rhode, Ph.D.; Jane Roberts, M.S.; Jeffrey Rossman, Ph.D.; Kathie Swift, M.S., R.D.; Diane Trieste and Janelle White, M.D.