I'm Too Young to Get Old: Health Care for Women After Forty

If you're a woman over forty, you probably have questions and concerns about your health. Unlike your mother and grandmother, you don't want to go passively—or silently—through the next half of your life. Want to know about contraception—or pregnancy—after forty? Will being on the Pill increase your risk for cancer? Is hormone replacement therapy right for you? I'm Too Young to Get Old has answers to all these questions and much, much more. Renowned gynecologist and Today show health contributor Judith Reichman, M.D., understands what today's women need to know, including such topics as:

• How to cope with changing hormones, moods, body temperatures, and sleep patterns
  
• Birth control
  
• Hormone replacement therapy
  
• Cancer prevention and detection
  
• Heart disease
  
• Osteoporosis
  
• Avoiding hysterectomy
  
• Coping with urinary incontinence
  
• Weight control
  
• Avoiding wrinkles
  
• Sexuality from forty to ninety (See the chapter "Sex, Hormones, and Rock and Roll")
  
• Preparing for a healthy second half of life despite our abuses in the first half
  

Written in a warm, accessible style and laced with the humorous perspective of someone who's going through this stage of life herself, I'm Too Young to Get Old has all the authoritative, up-to-date information you need to take control of your health.