Gorgeous: The Sum of Your Glorious Parts: A Lifestyle Enhancement Guide Book

When many women look into the mirror, they see a tummy that is too tubby, a "too big" backside, dull hair, or a wrinkle that wasn't there the last time they looked. They concentrate on the one or two parts of their bodies they are less pleased with, often overlooking the many parts that are doing just fine. The truth is, we need to understand our bodies as well-designed structures. Each part has its own function that is connected with the rest of our bodies' glorious parts. For our bodies to work as they are designed, each part must be nurtured with good food, consistent exercise, and stress-relieving relaxation. As we do so, we will become beautiful both inside and out. Gorgeous! Gorgeous: The Sum of All Your Glorious Parts has been written by a team of experts—a world-renowned scientist, a food expert, and an Olympic medal-winning athlete—in an effort to coordinate all the elements that make up a glorious lifestyle. It is filled with information about the science of good health and beauty, food tips and recipes that promote wellness, and tips for stress-reducing exercise and relaxation techniques that builds on good science and good food. All of it is designed to help today's women make the most of their minds and bodies to create a wonderful life. The book is divided into four main parts. Part One: Garden of the Soul: Cultivating Mind and Body is about lifestyle, good eating habits, and physical fitness. Part Two: How She Came to Be Lovely focuses on specific areas of the body—skin, hair, eyes, teeth, bones, toes, hands, tummies, and butts—offering the information needed about each to join good science with a healthy lifestyle. For instance, what does one do to rebuild collagen or tighten abs? Are there things in the kitchen, grocery store, and nearby recreation facilities that can play a part? Recipes designed to aid in the process are included in each chapter. Part Three: Honor Your Body explains the relationship of sleep, reducing stress, and good sex to inner and outer beauty happiness. Part Four: A Year's Worth of Fresh, Healthy Living brings all the information in the book together into a lifestyle guide that includes daily activities, meal plans, spa and relaxation techniques, volunteering, and tried-and-true techniques for balancing work and parenting—all of the tools necessary to achieve health, love, and beauty. Gorgeous: The Sum of All Your Glorious Parts is based on the latest information on science, nutrition, and relaxation therapy. It acknowledges that, when it comes to beauty, one size does not fit all. Such thinking leaves no room for too fat, too thin, too old, too anything. It turns out that beauty is as much a state of mind as anything else. Even if women today understand that beauty has little to do with airbrushed supermodels, American culture has taken its toll on their self-esteem, wearing them down and making them feel as unlovely or sexy as a garden slug. The beauty taught in Gorgeous: The Sum of All Your Glorious Parts celebrates uniqueness, femininity, and diversity. These are the things that show Mother Nature's stamp on what makes all of us original, unique creations, just as in a garden of breathtaking flowers there are plenty of different varieties. It's the same with humans. In the end, Gorgeous: The Sum of All Your Glorious Parts is not a diet book but a lifestyle-enhancement guide that shows smart, on-the-go women how to pamper and nurture themselves from the inside out.