About her anti-aging secret, 54-year-old Meredith Vieira says: "I don't have one." She does have good people, though -- none of whom are plastic surgeons.

One good person is NBC President Jeff Zucker, who hired Vieira as Today co-host. Passing up for the job folks in their 20s and 30s, Zucker told Vieira, who has been in front of a camera for nearly two decades: "I want someone with experience. I'm not looking for a number, I'm looking for a human being."

"I give him a lot of credit [for] that," says Vieira, who joins the ranks of women like Jamie Lee Curtis who take aging as it comes and accept it with simple grace. Vieira's kids help the cause. They don't care about her celebrity or anyone else's obsession with it, she says.

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That's right! The most powerful woman on television, Ms. Oprah Winfrey, will soon have even more power and presence on the tube. Teaming up with Discovery Communications who owns, Discovery, Animal Planet, TLC and more...OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network. will launch in 2009.

A press release from Discovery Communications states, "The new multi-platform media venture will be designed to entertain, inform and inspire people to live their best lives. OWN will debut in 2009 in more than 70 million homes, on what is currently the Discovery Health Channel. The venture will also include the award-winning digital platform, Oprah.com."

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Here's some good news for everyone: you don't have to worry about brushing your teeth anymore! That's right, just drink down some cranberry juice before you go to bed and let nature do the rest. Okay, so we're not quite there yet.

However, some new research coming out of the University of Rochester suggests that we may not be far away from cranberry-flavored toothpaste. According to the research, not only does this "miracle liquid" help prevent kidney infections, but it may also help fight against cavities. The article likens it to Teflon for teeth in that the juice makes it harder for all those nasty microbes and bacteria to stick to your fangs.

The U of R research team thinks that by attacking the bacteria, cranberry juice essentially renders plague-building enzymes useless. In doing so, the microbes aren't able to use those enzymes to make that gunk around your teeth. "Something in the cranberry juice disarms the pathogens that cause tooth decay," says Dr. Michel Koo, leading the team. Don't bother supplementing every meal with the stuff yet though, because scientists are busy trying to pick out that oh-so-important cavity-beating compound found in the juice to use in practical applications (like mouthwash and toothpaste ... mmm).

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