No subject is more important than your health and we have been privileged to publish the best book we have ever seen on maintaining your health.

The author is Dr Paul Clayton. He is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Medicine a doctor of pharmacology and a former Senior Scientific Advisor to the UK government's Committee on the Safety of Medicines.

He stakes out his beliefs in the opening paragraphs:

"You are unlikely to die of old age. Because very few people do – perhaps 1 in 10,000!

Yet cell culture studies, and the few individuals who live on healthily into their second century, indicate that our true life span probably lies between 110 and 120.

The vast majority of us, however, sicken and die prematurely, picked off by 'natural causes' long before our biological life span has run its course.

So why is a long and healthy life such a rarity? Why do so few of us live out our biological potential?

We used to die, in the main, of infection or accidents. Twentieth century medicine has scored significant victories against these. The major causes of ill health and death now are the chronic degenerative diseases such as: Heart disease, Stroke, Cancer, Diabetes, Osteoporosis and Alzheimers"

How to cut the risk of each one of the six main forms of degenerative disease – and therefore achieve "quality longevity – is what Health Defence is all about.

As Dr Clayton points out some people do achieve active and healthy old age, and there are whole populations where the incidence of cancer, heart disease and stroke is a fraction of our own in the West.

So logically he analyses their diets to identify the most protective nutrients from these, the worlds healthiest diets.

He concludes that there are nine groups of nutrients that can be incorporated easily into anyone's daily diet. Combined they offer the best chance of cutting the risk of the main degenerative diseases – and thereby not simply a longer life but a longer quality of life.

Health Defence is about investing in your health in the same way that most families invest in a pension – but the cost is a lot less!

If you order now we will also send you a free copy of the companion Health Defence Cook Book.

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