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Money can’t buy you love, but sometimes it can’t buy you beauty either. Many celebrities just can’t come to terms with the fact that they will, like the rest of us, become old and wrinkly at some point. There comes a point when any more plastic surgery will just make you look fake and almost not human. I am not sure it is worth it to have your face’s skin stretched, cut, and stapled to remove a few crows feet while also making it look as if you are constantly stuck in a wind tunnel.

Michael Jackson is the prime example of plastic surgery taken one step (or in this case, ten or eleven steps) too far. His skin was lightened and his face was lifted and stretched to the point where if you poked it with a pin it may pop. It is sad he used to be a normal looking person, but like other celebrities, he just didn’t want to grow old.

Another celebrity who was looking to shape up and stay young is Tara Reid. Tara Reid appeared in movies such as American Pie and National Lampoon’s Van Wilder. She felt she was beginning to “sag” and decided to have liposuction on her stomach and breast augmentation. Both of these surgeries went terribly wrong, and photos appeared all over the tabloids and magazines showing Reid’s new, yet awful stomach. Sadly, it looked like her stomach had been transplanted for a fifty year old’s.

Celebrities have all the money and the ability to get the best information about the best doctors, but they still have plastic surgery that makes them look ridiculous. For those people who are considering plastic surgery as opposed to other, less extreme, forms of anti-aging, remember that you may come out looking worse than you did before, and people will notice. Even celebrities have to age at some point, the sooner they accept that, the less likely they will turn out like Michael Jackson.

Forget the creams, pills, and supplements; buy a cat. According to many studies, owning an animal increases your life expectancy, lowers your chance of heart disease, and lowers your cholesterol. A pet is no longer an investment in you pleasure and happiness, but also in your health.

Pets help us stay younger and happier for many reasons. The first of which is companionship. Dogs are man’s best friends for a reason. People love their pets like they love their own children. Pets provide us with an outlet; they are always excited to see us making us feel needed and wanted. Everyone dog or cat owner can tell when their pet is excited or sad, and our pets try to make us happy just like we try to make us happy. This partnership is very beneficial in helping us stay young and energetic.

Exercise also helps us stay young, and by owning a pet you generally exercise much more. Whether you are taking your dog for a walk or simply playing with them in the backyard, you are up and moving and not sitting watching T.V. or playing video games. Pets, especially dogs, are always excited to play and go outdoors. Pets really prevent you from just sitting for hours because you have to get up often to let the outside or feed them. Many pet owners start running or go for daily walks because they just enjoy spending time with their animal.

Most importantly, pets love us and we love them. Love is an abstract term, but owning a pet can bring that if it is currently missing from your life. Even pets that are difficult because of behavioral issues or what not still are lovable. When your pet is growing up, you built a relationship, and it is these important relationships that keep us feeling and looking young. Pets are more than cute and fun. They are beneficial to your own wellbeing and youthfulness.

In her latest January “Oprah” magazine issue, Oprah admits that the past two years have been difficult for her. Why? Menopause is knocking on her door.

She tells her readers that she couldn’t focus, didn’t want to participate in her favorite activities like reading, and was depressed and lacked energy. Her friend Kate immediately recognized the symptoms because she had been dealing with them herself. She told Oprah to call a doctor and ask about bioidentical estrogen.

Bioidentical estrogen is made from chemicals to exactly represent the hormone made by woman’s ovaries. It’s more ethical than traditional hormone therapies because it doesn’t use the hormones from pregnant horses’ urine—horses that are bred over and over again every year just so they’ll stay pregnant and continue to produce estrogen.

Unfortunately, many of their foals are slaughtered.
You can rest easier using bioidentical estrogen, on the other hand. Literally. Oprah reported positive results just days after starting the treatment…she slept well, could concentrate, and her depression lifted.