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

Colette Bouchez (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 5, 2005

A fun and fabulous health guide for living well at midlife—no prescription required!

Menopause can be a difficult and confusing time--but it doesn’t have to be. Your Perfectly Pampered Menopause has 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 truly comprehensive guide 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!

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

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.
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Review

Colette Bouchez is a journalist you can trust!"-Julia Smith, MD,Phd,Director,Breast Cancer Screening Prevention, NYU Cancer Center, NY

-- YourMenopause.com

"A must read for every woman over 45!" - Steve Goldstein, MD,Professor, OB-GYN, NYU School of Medicine, New York

-- YourMenopause.com

"Every woman who uses my Severe Dry Skin Line must read this marvelous menopause guide!"-Adrien Arpel, CEO Signature Club A

-- YourMenopause.com

"I am recommending this book to all my female patients over 4o!"-James Dillard,MDAssistant Clinical Professor, Columbia University, New York

-- YourMenopause.com

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Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Broadway; First Edition edition (April 5, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0767917561
• ISBN-13: 978-0767917568
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.9 x 8.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #786,033 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I hope many of you may already know me - or at least my writing, as I am the author of 7 books on women's health care. I used to be a health reporter at the New York Daily News, and now I'm with WebMD where I write regularly about women's health care.

I also write a popular syndicated blog -TheRedDressDiary.com - Health and beauty for fabulous women over 40!
Stop by sometime - I know you'll find some news you can use!

I also love sharing information with readers through my various health care web sites:
www.PamperingMom.com(for my pregnancy readers!)
www.YourMenopause.com (for my baby boomer pals!)
www.TheVzone.net - for any woman with questions about her intimate health.

I feel very fortunate to be a medical writer, and to have my work honored by so many health organizations, including The American Cancer Society, The Coalition of Cancer Organizations, The Amerian Academy of Dermatology and many others. I've also received awards from the Medill School of Journalism and the Columbia School of Journalism.

In 1996 I was lucky to be a part of an award winning TV production team where our series on Cancer received an Emmy for best medical documentary.

I believe power is knowledge and I love writing books and articles that empower women to take better care of themselves and their families.

I'd love to hear from any readers - even if you haven't read my books! - I'd like to know what kind of health topics interest you most, and the health books that have helped you the most!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Helpful book, June 5, 2006

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Cate (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your Perfectly Pampered Menopause: Health, Beauty, and Lifestyle Advice for the Best Years of Your Life (Paperback)

This book has some great, up-to-date information in it, but the girly-girl tone gets old. I turn 50 this month and can't imagine caring about some of the stuff the author considers essential. I started laughing when I read "The Eight Cosmetics Every Woman Over Forty Has To Have: Face Primer, Skin Illuminator, Concealer, Light-diffusing Foundation, Bronzer, Cream or Gel Blush, Anti-feathering Lip Pencil/Lip Gloss, and Lash Extender." Is she serious?

Exercise, a healthy diet, and fresh air will do more for your looks than any cosmetics.

I also laughed when I read, "...if you don't want to change your look in any dramatic fashion (although that is what makes being a girl so much fun!)..."

Sometimes I felt like I was reading a fashion magazine instead of a book about menopause. Maybe this book was written for women in New York City or Hollywood?

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What a relief!!!, May 26, 2005

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Little Miss Sunshine (NYC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your Perfectly Pampered Menopause: Health, Beauty, and Lifestyle Advice for the Best Years of Your Life (Paperback)

Your Perfectly Pampered Menopause coincided with my hot flashes, bizarre itching, weird memory loss and irrational meltdowns, culminating with one in Amy's Bread because they let ONE PERSON buy all their brioche loaves. So, even though I just turned 48, it never occurred to me that I might be going through perimenopause--duh--until a friend turned me on to this fantastic book. I knew I was on to something when I looked at chapter 9 Your Brain on Menopause...Or, why you cry when the bakery is out of rye bread. No coincidence. This book is hilarious and chock full of comforting information--I'm not losing my mind!!!--and sound advice. I now carry it around with me and not just because I keep forgetting to take it out of my bag...okay, I do forget...But this is an awesome book!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow! Menopause and So Much More!, August 12, 2006

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VRWinston "Victoria" (Connecticut) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your Perfectly Pampered Menopause: Health, Beauty, and Lifestyle Advice for the Best Years of Your Life (Paperback)

I read two free excerpts of this book on WebMD and they were both wonderful - filled with great information and very helpful suggestions. So I bought the book - and I wasn't disappointed - it was even better than what I read online. It is definitely one of the only menopause books I know of that discusses all treatment options - both traditional and non-traditional, plus it also is a great resource for mid-life health in general. It not only covers traditional menopause symptoms - like hot flashes and night sweats and memory loss - it also offers important information on bone health, on mid-life weight gain, fatigue, women and heart disease, hair loss, incontinence, reducing cancer risks, - so it's really so much more than just a meonpause book. In fact, you really get your money's worth with this one! But again, that's what I've come to expect from what I read on WebMD - they always feature the best and most informative articles. Wow - a great book!