"Oh she takes care of herself. She can wait if she wants. She's ahead of her time. Oh and she never gives out. And she never gives in. She just changes her mind..."
-- Billy Joel's "She's Always A Woman To me" 
Middle age. It is one of the most dreaded situations that women view with increasingly growing, but often with unspoken fear. It brings up images of falling hair and faded skin, menopause, and decreasing social life. However, the wonders of modern medicine, health and fitness, are fast taking away those nightmares as unnecessary anxieties, as women in their 40s and 50s realize that they can look as smashing and sexy as their younger sisters or daughters too.