Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, August 24, 1993                   TAG: 9403190007
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 6   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: BILL LAITNER KNIGHT-RIDDER NEWSPAPERS|
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NEW BOOKS EXAMINE WAYS TO LIVE LONGER AND BETTER

``Ageless Body, Timeless Mind'' by Deepak Chopra, M.D. (Harmony Books, $22). New age medicine meets the mystic East. This doctor pal of Michael Jackson's says meditation and moderation are keys to more years of inner peace.

``Healing and the Mind'' by Bill Moyers ($25, Doubleday). A journalist's tour of mind-body medicine, based on the PBS-TV series. Moyers finds myriad ways to nurture our will to live. Dedicated to Kalamazoo's Fetzer Institute, a leader in mind-body research.

``Fountain of Age'' by Betty Friedan (due in September from Simon & Schuster, $25). You've got a long life, baby. Friedan the mountain climber, jogger and leading feminist says society's negative view of aging makes women grow old before their time.

``Dr. Mollen's Anti-Aging Diet'' by Dr. Art Mollen (Plume, $11). Less protein - more years. New in paperback, this is a weight-loss regimen in a longevity wrapper.

``The Longevity Factor'' by Richard Passwater, Ph.D. (due in mid-August, Keats Publishing, $4.95). Hey, it worked for rats. This biochemist is in love with chromium picolinate, a favorite mineral supplement of bodybuilders, linked here to improved immunity.