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Dayle Haddon
Author of the best-selling book "Ageless Beauty"

March 20, 2000

Dayle Haddon, author of the best-selling book "Ageless Beauty," contributes her expertise in health, beauty, and aging, on an online interview.

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HomeArts: Good afternoon and thanks for joining our one-hour chat with top model and beauty and aging expert Dayle Haddon. Dayle is the author of the best-selling book "Ageless Beauty" and contributes her expertise for the "CBS Early Show." Dayle now pens a weekly health and beauty column for Redbook Online. Dayle will take your questions today about her remarkable career and share her health and beauty tips. Welcome, Dayle!

Dayle Haddon: Glad to be among everybody. Glad to be connecting. Let's take some questions.

Tough Cookie: Are there any vitamins or supplements I should take to help me feel more vital? How about supplements for my skin and hair?

Dayle Haddon: First answer is I think you should get as many vitamins and minerals as you can by eating a healthy diet. After that you can supplement with C, a multi, E, Multi-Bs (great for hair), and Coenzyme Q10. Those are the vitamins I take regularly. Drink a lot of water and oxygenate the body. Exercise on a regular basis.

2ndChildhood: I'm 48 and have been lucky enough (at this point) not to exercise to keep my figure. I know that this is changing. Any advice for some invigorating exercise for a woman like me who has never been on a treadmill?

Dayle Haddon: Lucky, lucky you. It happens to us all sooner or later! It's great in a way that this happens to you now. You'll get a lot of extra benefits from taking care of yourself. This is going to be a great discovery to you once you start. Walking, walking, walking. Get a great pair of shoes. Enjoy the double and triple benefits of walking in nature. Concentrate, say "I'm walking for myself." Make it a game. I'm helping my body on the outside and I'm feeding the soul by looking at nature around me. You also want to do weight bearing exercises, also light weights. Pick them up by the TV and do different exercises. Check my book "Ageless Beauty" for some of the exercises I suggest for women. I suggest that there are a lot of fun ways to play and exercise, and you'll have a lot of choices from my book.

Philly Lawyer: I am trying to do the best with what I have, but I don't have a lot of self-esteem when I look in the mirror and see another wrinkle and see a new sag here and there. Any words of encouragement for me?

Dayle Haddon: I like to focus on what I've gained over the years, not what I've lost. Every age, every time in life has its benefits. It's up to Philly Lawyer to find out what that is. What you're interested in at 20, you're not interested in at 40. I'm much more interested in what I'm doing now and what's ahead of me, than in what I was. And I think that, no matter what you've done up to today, there are new things and great things that you can do. Age and some of the disadvantages of age can bring great rewards. As women we have to honor the life we have lived and see what's great about where we are now, rather than focusing on a wrinkle. Now there are things that you can do for the wrinkles, to make them less. Read my book "Ageless Beauty" for that. But I would rather that you focus on what you've gained, rather than what you've lost over the years.

Icee Mocha: How young should you start taking good care of your skin?

Dayle Haddon: The sooner the better. I've learned through research that the most skin damage is done in the first three years of a person's life. You're not too young to start. The earlier you start, the better chance that you'll have great skin through life. There is nothing sexier than great skin. No matter what you've done to your skin up to today, the skin changes - the cells turn around overnight. You can turn your skin around in a day with proper care. Some suggestions… do not go out without UVA/UVB protection. Look for both. If you're going to sunbathe, don't do it between 12 noon and 2 p.m. Also, cigarettes are a super aging thing for the skin. They constrict the blood vessels to the face, so you don't get nourishment to the skin. The pluses are regular exercise, lots of water, eating well and varying your diet, and GREAT THOUGHTS. I can't say enough about smiling and thinking good thoughts.

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