Table of Contents
Section 1 The Body Beautiful Prescriptions: Five-Week Plans To Transform Your Life
The Make-or-Break Years: Why Your Thirties and Forties Determine Your Lifetime Health 3
1 The Five-Day/Two-Day Plan 17
2 Sleek, Strong, Sexy: The Five-Week Workout Prescription 43
3 Clockstopping Secrets for Skin, Hair, and Beauty 65
4 Happiness Habits: Beating Stress, Depression, and Anxiety 102
5 The Body Beautiful Prescription for Better Sex 121
Section 2 Clockstopping Secrets For Lifetime Wellness
Stopping the Clock on Disease 139
6 Sexual Health Makeover: Contraception and STIs in Your Thirties and Forties 141
7 Great Expectations: Pregnancy for Grown-ups 156
8 Hormones: The Truth About Hormone Imbalances, Menopause, and Hormone Replacement Therapy 175
9 Beauty and the Breast 190
10 The Heart of the Matter: Keeping Your Ticker Ticking 212
11 Boning Up: Preventing Osteoporosis 237
12 On the Attack: Arming Yourself Against Cancer 251
Epilogue: Your Body Beautiful for Life 279
Acknowledgments 281
Notes 284
Index 290