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Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD — Eat Your Ice Cream: Six Simple Rules for a Long and Healthy Life - with Kara Swisher

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An authoritative, practical, and entertaining guide to healthy living from one of America’s leading health experts.Every day brings a torrent of articles, videos, and podcasts about health and longevity. The “Wellness Industrial Complex” offers conflicting advice and promises us more time to enjoy in the future—but it sure is demanding a lot of time right now. In Eat Your Ice Cream, renowned health expert Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel argues that life is not a competition to live the longest, and that “wellness” shouldn’t be difficult; it should be an invisible part of one’s lifestyle that yields maximum health benefits with the least work. Dr. Emanuel cuts through the noise with wit and good humor, giving readers just what they need: simple, high–impact, evidence–based guidelines to issues such as food and drink, exercise, sleep, mental acuity, and social engagement. Pairing common sense with uncommon wisdom based on his decades of expertise and experience, Dr. Emanuel helps readers decide which lifestyle changes are worth making and how to best implement them.Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD—a bioethicist, health policy expert, and oncologist—is a vice provost and professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He regularly contributes to the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Atlantic. He lives in Philadelphia.Emanuel is in conversation with Kara Swisher, the host of the podcast On with Kara Swisher and the cohost of the Pivot podcast with Scott Galloway, both distributed by New York magazine. She was also the cofounder and editor-at-large of Recode, host of the Recode Decode podcast, and co-executive producer of the Code conference. She was a former contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and host of its Sway podcast and has also worked for The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. Swisher is the author of three books including Burn Book: A Tech Love Story, published in 2024.https://politics-prose.com/book/9781324117537?ic_referral=5IByfaafAZa-TmO1ls30wJQyPQn80ULRo7dB6xFTBgUwM3YlctPLED6cpt2MB2ZRs3mxCFicITTQgfKGzCI-gtYAUk74doVZTXkmxOuv5XBgjqWCJMV6FsydH1VWVCgKYblIx6A

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