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7 Years Younger: The Revolutionary 7-Week Anti-Aging Plan Reviewed By Carolyn Warren of Bookpleasures.com
- By Carolyn Warren
- Published December 4, 2012
- Health & Fitness
Carolyn Warren
Reviewer Carolyn Warren: Carolyn is the author of Mortgage Rip-Offs and Money Savers, an Amazon bestseller and Book of the Month pick for The Washington Post (8/08). She also writes for the Christian market. Praying Through Your Pregnancy was a finalist in the 2010 ECOA Book Awards. She enjoys reading nonfiction, literary fiction, and women's mainstream novels. Follow Here To Find Out More About Carolyn and Here.
Author: The Editors of Good Housekeeping
ISBN-10: 1936297639
ISBN-13: 978-1936297634
The name America trusts, Good Housekeeping, brings us a
seven-week plan to look and feel better in 7 Years Younger: The
Revolutionary 7-Week Anti-Aging Plan. I’ll say it right up front: I
love this book. It’s a fantastic resource of information that
offers priceless advice, tips, and insider information. It’s
refreshing to read recommendations on beauty products without the
vested-interest sales hype. Here, we get the truth about how much
improvement is realistic for a given treatment or product, as well as
what is a waste of money.
This 390-page guide was put together by a squad of
experts, including Good Housekeeping’s Birnur K. Aral, Ph.D. In
addition, regular women—not models—tried out the plan. These
ladies are featured in colored before-and-after photographs along
with their candid comments about what worked for them.
Each week of the plan covers one area for looking and
feeling younger, so that we’re not bombarded with total change all
at once.
In the first week, we reclaim beautiful skin. This chapter covers such topics as:
· * Are serums a waste of money? Which moisturizers actually work?
· * How to reduce dark spots, white spots, and red blotches.
· * Eliminate adult acne.
· * Is Botox worth a shot?
·
* Charts for various skin types, including products that
tested best and why.
The week of Makeup
Makeover is a revelation. What?! I shouldn’t match my foundation to
my skin? The editors explain why this old rule doesn’t hold up; and
how to select a shade that won’t leave the complexion looking
pasty, blotchy, or ashy.
The next week is all about healthy hair: how to
recapture gloss, bounce and body. It also contains professional tips
for getting perfect at-home color for those who want to save money.
No beauty book would be complete without including a section on diet and exercise. Good, common-sense, no diet-product solicitations. Even if you already have a good knowledge of healthy eating, you’ll find this segment inspiring. My favorite part in this section is “Binge Busters: 16 Delicious Ways to Satisfy Your Cravings.”
Last is Brain Boosters, because keeping our brain functioning is essential to enjoying life to the end of our days. The latest scientific studies offer lots of hope. “Brain researchers used to believe that everyone lost up to 30 percent of their neurons as they aged, but now it looks as if you not only hold on to most of those neurons, but can make new, ‘smarter’ ones if you try. It’s never too late to start engaging your brain,” says Gary Small, M.D., director of the UCLA Center of Aging (p. 214). Included are seven top moves to train your brain younger
Additionally, the Baltimore Longitudinal Study on Aging,
ongoing since 1959, has determined that disease is not a part of
aging.
I found this book to be enlightening, encouraging, and motivating. With this plan, we are empowered to take charge of how we look and feel, rather than be victims of Father Time. Highly recommended for women, age 35-and up.
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