Who has that kind of time and discipline? Many of the Orange County women I spoke with acknowledged, shaking their heads, that putting on pounds probably is inevitable for women (and a lot of men) as they age. But that didn’t stop them from working as hard as they could to keep inevitability at bay.

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THE DETAILS: Over time, the first lady has also talked about the changes she made to make her children healthier and, one assumes, thinner, though there are no before and after pictures available. She calls the changes minor and has said, “It’s not about being 100 percent perfect 100 percent of the time. Lord knows I’m not.”

While not completely eliminating cookies and ice cream or burgers and fries—part of the fun of childhood, as she’s called them—Mrs. Obama become more involved in her family’s eating habits and initiated changes that may seem small, but that added up to noticeable results.

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The hard science of medicine gets all the credit for staving off disease and adding on years. But practices that strengthen your inner life — your mind, mood, and sense of connection — count, too, often as much as any solution that comes from a scalpel or prescription pad. “There’s good evidence that emotional, spiritual, and social factors are all important for longevity,” says Gary Small, M.D., director of the Center on Aging at UCLA. Research shows that these four strategies help the most.
Let The Sunshine In
• What we know: People who have a positive outlook when they’re young (measured by a personality test they took as college students) end up living longer, report two recent studies that followed participants for 30 and 40 years, respectively. Even at age 50, just feeling upbeat about getting older is linked, on average, to seven more years of life, research at Yale University has found. What’s the connection? “Negative emotions like hostility and bitterness are bad for overall health and specifically for the heart,” says Stephen Post, Ph.D., director of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at Stony Brook University in New York. On the upside, women with sunny dispositions enjoy better heart health — over a 10- to 13-year follow-up, they had far less arterial narrowing than more dour women, a study from the University of Pittsburgh reported.
What you can do: Become an extrovert — join a community group, try a new activity, strike up a conversation with a stranger. Acting gregarious can make you feel more outgoing, which is linked to a more positive mood, researchers at Wake Forest University have found

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Illinois-based BioSante Pharmaceuticals has launched several late-stage studies of a testosterone gel intended to remedy libido loss after menopause. About 100 U.S. medical institutions are now on board to test the drug’s safety and effectiveness among thousands of women; volunteers, some of whom will unknowingly receive a placebo, are still being recruited.

Earlier trials found the gel useful in women bothered by low desire following medically needed surgery to remove their ovaries. (Those sex organs produce roughly half a woman’s natural testosterone. Though often thought of as a “male hormone,” testosterone is tied to libido in both sexes.) A dollop a day of the gel on their arm boosted the frequency of satisfying sexual events compared with a placebo.

An approved medication for low female libido may be in higher demand than Viagra ever was for men, says Stephen Simes, president and CEO of the company. His rationale: 1.4 million off-label testosterone prescriptions were written for women in 2006 alone. He forecasts the drug will be available by 2011, as long as no snags arise. (Women interested in enrolling in the trial can E-mail the company’s investigators to see if they’re eligible.)

A nonhormonal treatment is also on the horizon, with late-stage testing well underway. Boehringer Ingelheim’s once-daily pill acts on serotonin receptors in the brain, which, after all, is the organ most heavily involved with sexual desire. Studies involve pre-menopausal women bothered by a low sex drive

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Today, colorectal cancer survivors, caregivers, physicians, and nurses brought their fight against colorectal cancer to Washington, DC.  C3 President Carlea Bauman described the importance of their voices in the war against cancer, “colorectal cancer advocates who speak up and demand change will be the ones who make a difference in the fight against this disease.”

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Typically, she was logging only five or six hours of sleep a night. The 37-year-old marketing consultant in Marshfield, Massachusetts, says the sleepless nights began after the birth of her youngest child and got worse after she was laid off during her maternity leave and started her own business in late 2007.

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