Your Perfectly Pampered Menopause Health,

A fun and fabulous health guide for living well at midlifeno prescription required! Menopause can be a difficult and confusing time--but it doesn't have to be.Your Perfectly Pampered Menopausehas the answers that make the difference, with a clear-cut plan that shows you how to look and feel better now than ever before. Culling advice from leading medical experts, award-winning reporter Colette Bouchez dispenses the latest news on everything from hot flashes, insomnia, and dysfunctional bleeding to incontinence, bone health, weight control, and more. She explores the latest buzz on HRT, natural hormones, and the newest prescription drugs, as well as the latest in natural and traditional care for a trulycomprehensiveguide to midlife health. But she also brings you advice from top beauty and lifestyle experts and clues you in on everything from anti-aging skin and hair care to the hottest news in midlife nutrition (including an anti-hot-flash diet!), divine new relaxation techniques, optimal exercise and dieting secrets, and putting the kick back into your sex life! With this complete guide to taking care of yourself now and in the future you'll discover how midlife can be the best time of your life! From the Trade Paperback edition.

An award-winning medical writer for the New York Daily News, COLETTE BOUCHEZ has more than twenty years of journalism and medical research experience. Her weekly consumer health column is syndicated by The New York Times, and she is a feature writer for WebMD.com. Her previous books include Your Perfectly Pampered Pregnancy (Broadway 2004), The V Zone: A Woman's Guide to Intimate Health Care, and Getting Pregnant (95,000 copies in print). She lives in New York City.

Acknowledgments

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Once Upon a Time...

Cinderella, Hormone Replacement Therapy, and Other Fairy Tales of Modern Life

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1 Understanding This Thing Called Menopause

What You Need to Know Right from the Start

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2 Warming Up to Midlife Changes...Or, Open the Window or I'll Scream!

Hot Flashes, Night Sweats, and Other Fun Ways to Know You're Over Forty

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3 Your Intimate Menopause

The V Zone Changes Every Woman Must Know

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4 Standing at a Pay Toilet with No Spare Change

Why Your Midlife Bladder Has a Mind of Its Own

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5 Getting Back Your Groove and Your Glow

Droop, Drop, and Wrinkle Advice for Midlife Skin

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6 Hair Today, None Tomorrow

Solving the Riddle of Midlife Hair Loss

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7 Outsmarting Your Menopause Metabolism:

Successful Weight Control and Exercise in Your Middle Years

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8 Sex in Menopause City

A Hot New Guide to the Sexiest Time of Your Life

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9 Your Brain on Menopause.... Or, Why You Cry When the Bakery Is Out of Rye Bread

How to Cope with Mood Swings and Memory Loss, and Reduce the Stress in Your Life

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10 Mother Nature Never Had a Hot Flash

Plant Estrogens, Herbs, and the Truth About Soy

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11 HRT, Natural Hormones, and Beyond

How Your Doctor Can Help You Now

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12 Protecting Your Future Health

Becoming the Woman You Were Meant to Be

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Resources

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Index

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Your Perfectly Pampered Menopause Health, Beauty, and Lifestyle Advice for the Best Years of Your Life

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