My friend Mary told me about a book on the New York Times Bestseller list, titled Younger Next Year for Women, by Harry Lodge and Chris Crowley.
The claim: You can turn back your biological clock. You can become functionally younger every year for the years to come and continue to live with the vitality and grace you had when you were young. You can avoid up to 70 percent of the decay and eliminate up to 50 percent of the injuries and illnesses associated with getting older.
Their first book on the subject was actually a book for men, but the fact is that women have even more to gain from Younger Next Year. Just as the average woman lives longer (three decades past menopause) than the average man, the average woman has more anxiety about aging.
The book covers menopause and postmenopause at length, cardiac disease, osteoporosis, sexuality, even finances. It adapts its simple, lifesaving motivational rules—Exercise Six Days a Week, Don’t Eat Crap, Connect to Other People—to contemporary women’s lifestyles. Their mantra is simple: Instead of letting age happen to you, take the bull by the horns and choose growth over decay.
They also have a very comprehensive, health oriented Web site that will map out meal plans and give fitness advice (with your doctors approval) and also explain many of the changes that our bodies go through as we age. Dr. Lodge also give fashion advice: don't dress like a little old lady: stay away from the frump! Clothes matter much more as people get older. It may take a bit more work, but nothing boosts the attitude more than knowing you look good - like the hot and fabulous Well Past 50 women we are!
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