One year ago, the FDA buckled to pharmaceutical company pressure and approved the female libido drug flibanserin (brand name: Addyi). Flibanserin had failed as an antidepressant but women taking it reported it gave them more good sex. The drug manufacturer hopes to develop it as a non-hormonal treatment for hypoactive sexual disorder, a condition in […]
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Award-winning author and health advocate, Genie James says aging well and feeling better is an inside-out game. Her seventh book, THE FOUNTAIN OF TRUTH! Outsmart Hype, False Hope and Heredity to Recalibrate Your Age, focuses on keeping us healthy for life. Genie wonders why live 15 years longer if you’re fat, sad, sick and broke?
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Claire Cook was born to be a writer, but like most of us, life didn’t give her the Great American Novel on a silver platter. Now, she has written the story of how she finally grabbed her birthright when she realized she may never write a book in her lifetime. In Never Too Late: Your
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Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself – Coco Chanel For decades we have been barraged with younger women dominating the runway and fashion magazines. Just recently though, a handful of fashion brands have decided to break the mold and are championing the older woman. Yves Saint Laurent has announced Joni Mitchell (71
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In late 2014, NY Times Magazine shared a wealth of articles about seniors. Celebrating men and women who have changed the face of aging, the articles proved that the conventional thinking about seniors no longer applies. PR for People found one particular article in the series, “Old Masters at the Top of Their Game” by
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In her NYC psychotherapy practice, Dr. Vivian Diller helps women and men discover how to redefine what it means to be attractive as they age. In the book, Face It: How Women Really Feel as Their Looks Change, which she co-authored with Michele Willens, she reported on her research about the role beauty plays in
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Many women tell me they grew up with messages that greatly affected their self-images. These messages continue to influence how they see their reflections in the mirror today, and it often does not match up with the way they think it should look. They think they are too fat, too short, too tall, not pretty,
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Do you worry about growing older? About half of women do. At the grocery checkout they see magazine covers of beautiful, young, glowing women. The images present an impossible, airbrushed ideal that can raise fears about wrinkles, weight, and losing in the desirability derby if her man compares her to these beauties. And appearance is
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Fully 45% of women admit to being afraid of aging, according to recent research. Societal pressures, watching our children grow, seeing our parents age, feeling our bodies change, all remind us — every day — of the passage of time. Fear of aging is most common in women aged 20-39, yet even those in their
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