Your Body Beautiful: Clockstopping Secrets to Staying Healthy, Strong, and Sexy in Your 30s, 40s, and Beyond

by Jennifer Ashton M.D., Christine Rojo

Overview

The popular medical correspondent challenges women to reinvent their health and wellness routines, and to make midlife their most vibrant years.

The world is realizing that a woman’s thirties and forties can be the most beautiful, energetic, and passionate time of her life.

Dr. Jennifer Ashton is America’s fastest-rising women’s health expert and medical television personality. Here in her health book for women, she outlines a powerful approach to health care that can help unleash new energy, strength, and sexiness. Integrating the latest scientific research, her five-part plan includes:

• A simple eating regimen tailored for your changing metabolism.
• A fitness program to help you work out harder in less time.
• Stress-reduction techniques and simple strategies for relaxation.
• An effective, step-by-step sleep plan.
• Prevention advice for reducing your risk of heart disease, cancer, and other potentially fatal ailments.

Authoritative yet written in a friendly, girlfriend-to-girlfriend voice, Your Body Beautiful and its transformative strategies will help you look and feel more vibrant than ever.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781583335109
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	12/31/2012
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	372,442
Product dimensions:	5.26(w) x 7.99(h) x 0.79(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Jennifer Ashton, M.D., OB-GYN, is a women’s health expert, a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the author of The Body Scoop for Girls. She maintains her own private clinical practice, Hygeia Gynecology, in Englewood, New Jersey.

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

What People are Saying About This

Dara Torres

"Dr. Ashton has done a terrific job of creating a 5-week program that any woman or mom can follow. The insight into our lives and the tools she provides will make an immediate and long-lasting change in anyone's life! I highly recommend it."

From the Publisher

"Dr. Jennifer Ashton has provided a one-stop shop for all the tools we need to live the vibrant, healthy and sexy life we all want and deserve." -Dr. Laura Berman, sex and relationship therapist, host of In the  Bedroom

Kathy Smith

"If you want to look and feel your best after 40 (and who doesn't?), Your Body Beautiful is for you. Dr. Ashton offers groundbreaking tools that help you actually control the way you age. Follow these techniques, and this can be the healthiest, sexiest, most energized and beautiful stage of your entire life. This is the book all your girlfriends will be raving about-and for good reason."

Editorial Reviews

Dr. Ashton helps women reclaim the most vibrant years of their lives by redefining women’s health in the modern age.” — Dr. Mehmet Oz, host of The Dr. Oz Show

“Dr. Ashton helps women reclaim the most vibrant years of their lives by redefining women’s health in the modern age.”
—Dr. Mehmet Oz, host of The Dr. Oz Show

"Dr. Jennifer Ashton has provided a one-stop shop for all the tools we need to live the vibrant, healthy and sexy life we all want and deserve."
—Dr. Laura Berman, sex and relationship therapist, host of In the Bedroom

"If you want to look and feel your best after 40 (and who doesn't?), Your Body Beautiful is for you. Dr. Ashton offers groundbreaking tools that help you actually control the way you age. Follow these techniques, and this can be the healthiest, sexiest, most energized and beautiful stage of your entire life. This is the book all your girlfriends will be raving about—and for good reason."

—Kathy Smith, author of Kathy Smith's Lift Weights to Lose Weight

"Dr. Ashton has done a terrific job of creating a 5-week program that any woman or mom can follow. The insight into our lives and the tools she provides will make an immediate and long-lasting change in anyone's life! I highly recommend it."
—Dara Torres, 12-time Olympic medalist, motivational speaker, and mom

"Combination pep talk and warning, Ashton’s message that women can and should take control of their own future health in these critical decades is backed up by current research and up-to-the-minute disease-prevention info.”
—Publishers Weekly

"The author’s positive attitude, generally practical health recommendations and sassy style combine to lend her professional advice wide appeal."
—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher