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Prevention’s October cover star is Dr. Mehmet Oz, MD. “The Dr. Oz Show” is now entering the third season and the Oz-ifiation continues this year given Dr. Oz is in the enviable position of taking over 83 of Oprah’s newly vacated time slots.
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Dr. Oz
On Dr. Oz’s Secret to Success
Dr. Oz first and foremost defines himself as a doctor: he is a professor of surgery at Columbia University Medical Center as well as medical director of the Integrative Medicine Program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital where he still operates weekly in the morning and afternoon and sees patients between surgeries. “Taking care of patients gives me energy and grounds me.” “I think it also makes me a better TV host. Because after a while, you start to believe your own BS. And you don’t want that. You want to stay real.”
It’s this genuine ability to stay real that’s the secret to his success.
On His Larger Than Life (and goofy) Props:
Wrestling a taller than Oz tongue to illustrate the symptoms of oral cancer or popping a synthetic pimple that’s 8inces in diameter (and oozes) are familiar props on “The Doctor Oz Show” set. When asked his strategy behind using these goofy props: “People are intimidated by health. It’s at its very core a scary topic, so if we can keep it playful it helps people relax so they can absorb the information.”
On What’s in Store for the 3rd Season:
“I’m going to be much more focused on motivation….We need to take people from knowing it’s the right thing to doing the right thing. It’s almost like a political campaign. We want people focused on weight loss, better sex—because it’s a metaphor for overall health—physical activity, and sleep.”
On What He Believes is Currently the Biggest Healthy Issue:
“Obesity. It’s easier to cure obesity than cancer. And it drives most of the heart disease and a good amount of the autoimmune issues we have. I also think gastric bypass surgery will play a big role. We probably do only 1% of the gastric bypass surgeries we should do.”
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Prevention’s recent 2011 Beauty Awards
Top 10 Celebrities Who Defy Their Age!
Ellen DegeneresEllen DeGeneres, 53
Talk show host, comedian, and CoverGirl model
It’s DeGeneres’s signature self-deprecating sense of humor that makes her age a non-issue. When people are busy laughing at her easygoing, everywoman riffs or admiring her dance moves or her ease with herself and her sexuality (she came out as a lesbian in 1997, just before her TV character on Ellen did), the year her birth certificate was issued seems entirely irrelevant. And as a spokesmodel for CoverGirl, she manages to look like a real woman who hasn’t been excessively airbrushed while elevating what we think of as 53 to a new watermark. DeGeneres strikes the perfect balance between accessible and likable—a role model with a definite sense of self. “Well, sure, I want people to like me—but not at my expense,” she told O magazine. “I just learned that there are too many people who are going to have an opinion about me whether I am kind to them or not. I can’t control what they’re feeling.”
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Diane LaneDiane Lane, 46
Actress
Lane has always lived in defiance of her age: At 13, she landed on the cover of Time after starring in A Little Romance with Sir Laurence Olivier. At 18, after movies such as Six Pack, Rumble Fish, and The Outsiders, she was a multimillionaire, and by 19, she had “retired” from movies. A few TV and movie roles won her praise in her 20s and early 30s, but she really hit her stride at 37, when the unbelievably sexy scenes she had in Unfaithful forever shot down the idea only young women live lustfully. Now, every 40-something guy’s teenage crush is a model for midlife sexiness and talent that both women and men (and critics) appreciate, and her recent Emmy nomination for outstanding lead actress in HBO’s movie Cinema Verite proves she’s not slowing down anytime soon.
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Dara TorresDara Torres, 44
Olympic swimmer and author of Age Is Not a Number
Torres has competed in the Olympics five times and won 12 Olympic medals, including a silver in the 50-meter freestyle when she was 41. She’s even considering another go of it in 2012, if her knee cooperates (she had a cartilage transplant in 2009). “If you’re 21 years old going to the next Olympics at 25, that’s much different than going from 41 to 45 years old. It’s a whole new challenge,” Torres told Prevention. But note she says it’s challenging, not necessarily impossible; chronological reality just doesn’t seem to deter Torres, who became a first-time mom at 39, from living the life she wants. Between charity work for Swim Across America, speaking engagements, endorsement deals, training, and parenting her little girl, she’s one busy woman and single mom. “I’m not a ‘sit around’ kind of person,” she says.
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Jennifer AnistonJennifer Aniston, 42ActressWhat Aniston accomplished in her 20s and 30s was considerable—she’s still got legions of fans from Friends—but she seems to have decided that 40 was merely her starting line, and she’s pursued her career and love life as if her best and most beautiful years are ahead of her. There aren’t many women—particularly those who were most famous for playing a sitcom hottie in their 20s—who would celebrate their 40th birthday by appearing nude on the cover of a men’s magazine, or risk “cougar” insults by playing a sexually predatory boss, as she did in this summer’s Horrible Bosses. But Aniston and her rockin’ body (courtesy of daily yoga sessions) seem to be saying, “Yep, this is what 40-plus looks like.” Or, as she recently told The Sun newspaper, “Getting older, you get more comfortable in your body and in your skin and with who you are.”
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