{"product_id":"9781442659568","title":"Baby Boomer Health Dynamics: How Are We Aging?","description":"\u003cp\u003eAre the baby boomers in Canada more or less healthy than previous generations? What are the implications of this for the national health care system?\u003ci\u003e Baby Boomer Health Dynamic\u003c\/i\u003e responds to the growing interest in the generation that makes up over one-third of the Canadian population - the largest segment of society - with the leading edge reaching their sixty-fifth birthday in 2011 and eighty-five by 2031.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocusing on four health behaviours that have been proven to be major risk factors for disease: smoking, unhealthy exercise, obesity, and heavy drinking - Andrew V. Wister researches the long-term implications of several key lifestyle-health conundrums, most notably the paradoxical relationship in the concurrent trends over the last two decades of increased exercise levels and a significant rise in obesity. This invariably leads to questions about the eating habits of North Americans, and in particular, the quantity and quality of fast-food and convenience-food consumption. Recent public declarations by a number of health organizations and institutes that we are experiencing an obesity crisis, and moreover, that obesity is the 'new tobacco' makes \u003ci\u003eBaby Boomer Health Dynamics\u003c\/i\u003e both timely and topical.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154362908912,"sku":"9781442659568","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781442659568_p0.jpg?v=1763807420","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781442659568","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}