Your Perfectly Pampered Menopause: Health, Beauty, and Lifestyle Advice for the Best Years of Your Life
For women, there's the quest for achieving the big "O," the worry about experiencing the big "C," and the fear of enduring the onset of the big "M." But for Bouchez, a New York Times syndicated columnist and award-winning health and medial writer for the New York Daily News, menopause isn't a time to be dreaded but one to be celebrated. "As lots of women can tell you, reaching menopause can seem more like a beginning than an end anyway-the start of the second phase of your life." Just look at Oprah Winfrey, Diane Sawyer, Diane Keaton. But there are still lots of challenges associated with the end of a woman's reproductive years. In what could be described as the bible of menopause, Bouchez provides a well-researched, informative A-to-Z guide on how to deal with everything from hot flashes and mood swings to weight gain and bladder control. Interspersed throughout the 12 chapters, which range from "Sex in Menopause City" to "Getting Back Your Groove and Your Glow," is a fun and helpful "M file" sidebar, where she answers specific questions from women. With candor and a conversational tone, she tackles lubrication options, incontinence and the pros and cons of hormone therapy. For all women facing this time in their life cycle, the support and help found here will be most welcome.Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.