In the Author Spotlight ...
Dr. Rick Selvaggi, Author of
Dr. Rick's Guide
to a Long and Happy Life

 

Dr. Rick Selvaggi has learned many things from practicing family medicine over the last 30 years. In his book, Dr. Rick's Guide to a Long and Happy Life, he shares that knowledge in an easy to read step by step guide to changing your habits to live a better life.

Dr. Rick has always been interested in understanding ways to promote longer, healthier, and more comfortable lives. While practicing medicine Commerce, Texas, with his brother Dr. Tom Selvaggi, Dr. Rick began create handouts for his patients with information on common issues such as smoking, weight-loss, and the dangers of alcohol consumption. "I noticed that patients tended to leave these handouts in the examination room," he laughs. "I decided to create a book with all of the information that would be more effective and more likely to leave the office with them then the handouts."

Dr. Rick's Guide to a Long and Happy Life enables the reader to review the twelve most important health habits that extend life, and personal habits that need to be changed can be identified. "Each of the twelve chapters introduces the reasons for changing health habits as well as the different methods that can be used to make these changes," Dr. Rick explains. "Patients - and doctors - tend to get lost in treating disease. This guide explains the most important health habits that help extend life, not just how to treat the issues."

This guide is written in concise and easily understood language. Additional resources, organizations, and references are cited to allow further reading and investigation by the reader. "Writing the book actually helped me organize my thinking," Dr. Rick says. "I was able to explain step by step methods for making changes in these common health habits. The sometimes surprising results challenge some of today's commonly held beliefs."

A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin (B.S. in Molecular Biology, 1977) and the University Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas (M.D., 1980), Dr. Rick is Board Certified in Family Practice with a Certificate of Added Qualifications in Geriatric Medicine. When not practicing medicine, he enjoys studying physics and doing stone work. Married since 1987, Dr. Rick has two daughters, ages 25 and 11. He is currently working on an updated version of Dr. Rick's Guide to a Long and Happy Life.

 

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