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Sacramento Book Review, January 2009
Health, Fitness & Dieting
The Great Life Makeover by Daniel A. Monti; Anthony J. Bazzan
Collins Living, 272 pages
As we age, our bodies change, and those changes are different for men and women.
In the Great Life Makeover, doctors Monti and Bazzan, have created a book for couples,
explaining what changes each other is going through, and how to work together to feel
better, be happier, and recharge your sex life. The book is broken into three sections, with the first two using case studies to explain the changes in your body as you enter mid-life, and the reasons for them. The last section is six makeovers: Sex, Diet, Exercise, Hormone, Supplement and Mood– with easy-to-follow instructions.
There is a great deal of current medical information given, told in clear English, and giving plenty of options for different needs.The controversial issues are discussed, and both sides explained clearly. Suggestions that don’t have strong scientific support are clearly labeled as such, and nothing suggested is unusual or harmful.
For couples wanting to change their lives together, helping each other become healthier
and closer together, this is a very good guide.
New York Daily News
9 Self-Help Books for 2009
By Patrick Huguenin, Daily News Staff Writer
Sunday, January 4th 2009
Need help with those resolutions? One of these books may do the trick.
'Tis the season for self-improvement, and the bookshelves are full of betterment bibles
from ab-centric to zany. If you need help making or keeping your New Year's resolution,
check out these titles for 2009.
THE CATCHALL . . .
"The Great Life Makeover: A Couples' Guide to Weight, Mood and Sex" by Daniel
Monti and Anthony Bazzan (Collins Living, $24.99). M.D.s Monti and Bazzan, who run
a midlife health center at Jefferson University, call themselves "anti-geriatricians"
"because we aim to keep our patients as youthful as possible," they write in the intro.
Their clear, comforting book breaks down weight gain, sleep loss, exercise and intimacy with an eye on how they relate to growing older with the person you love.
Reprinted by permission of the New York Daily News Corporation.
Weekly Diet News Digest
by John McGran, Diet.com Chief Editor
Great Life Makeover: Better Weight, Mood & Sex!
If you're like me and feeling frazzled, fat and fatigued most of the time, you sorely need a great life makeover.
In this Diet.com Exclusive, doctors Daniel A. Monti and Anthony J. Bazzan are here to help you not only improve your weight, mood and sex drive, but to also help you enjoy the best years of your life!
Monti and Bazzan are the authors of the hot new book, GREAT LIFE MAKEOVER: A Couples' Guide to WEIGHT, MOOD, and SEX for the Best Years of Your Life — and Your Relationship!
Dr. Bazzan says that in order to face the realities of midlife head-on, it is crucial for couples to understand the three hot-button issues of sex, weight, and mood.
"A slowdown in metabolism makes it harder to maintain muscle and keep off excess fat," Dr. Bazzan tells Diet.com. "Meanwhile, chronically high levels of stress can aggravate midlife symptoms, accelerating aging, disrupting your hormones, making you fat, and putting you in a bad mood.
"And as for sex... a decline in the production of hormones can dampen libido and diminish sexual capacity in both men and women."
Dr. Bazzan says these three inter-related issues can feed off of each other making a bad situation even worse. The telltale
physical and emotional changes can have a profound impact on a couple, straining the relationship... read full article
Books, Parenting & Families
Editorial Reviews
The Great Life Makeover: Weight, Mood & Sex! (Hardcover)
Fat, cranky sex. Doesn't sound all that great, does it? The truth is, these three things—your weight, mood, and your sex life—are crucial elements of a great life at any age, but especially now that you're in the best years of your life. And they are the three elements that, when improperly calibrated, can cause a perfect storm. Face it: Your hormones, metabolism, blood flow, and mood aren't what they used to be. What you need is a Great Life Makeover.
The Great Life Makeover does for your mind, body, and love life what a beauty makeover does for your appearance. And Dr. Daniel A. Monti and Dr. Anthony J. Bazzan are the experts who perform these makeovers. Dr. Monti, a specialist in psychiatry and couples' counseling, and Dr. Bazzan, a specialist in aging and hormones, lay out a practical, comprehensive, and detailed guide for midlife couples wanting to reboot their love life, rebalance hormones, and remedy the mental and physical issues that make midlife more difficult than it should be.
Addressing the three hot-button issues with a focus on diet, fitness, and stress reduction, The Great Life Makeover offers a program that can dramatically improve your health, relationship, and overall quality of life and prevent other problems from cropping up in the future.
