Healthy Eating for Life for Women

Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (January 18, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0471435961
ISBN-13: 978-0471435969
Eat your way to better health and well-being
Making simple changes to your diet can significantly improve your health, from easing your menstrual and menopausal symptoms to strengthening your bones and protecting your heart. This book shows you how. Drawing from the latest medical and dietary research, Healthy Eating for Life for Women presents a complete and sensible plant-based nutrition program that will help you look and feel better, with more energy and vitality than ever before.
This book gives you a clear look at how women's bodies work and how common health problems arise, then provides detailed nutritional guidelines that have been carefully drafted by Physicians Committee nutrition experts. It includes over 100 delicious, easy-to-make recipes to help you put these healthy eating principles to work right away. Healthy Eating for Life for Women contains important information on:
* Age-proofing from the inside out
* Losing weight
* Improving fertility and alleviating PMS
* Relieving menopausal symptoms
* Preventing cancer and arthritis
* And more
No matter what your age or diet history, this book will give you the crucial knowledge you need to take charge now- of your eating, your health, and your life.
Women of all ages-daughters, mothers, and grandmothers-will be surprised to learn how what they eat affects so many aspects of their health. This guide explains how the right foods can ease menstrual and menopausal symptoms, strengthen bones, encourage weight loss, protect the heart, and even help prevent certain cancers. It includes 100 delectable recipes that make healthy eating simple for women and their families.
Until now, to battle headaches, arthritis, or menstrual cramps, many women have needed fistfuls of over-the-counter remedies. Menopause has meant lifelong dependence on prescription hormones. Preventing cancer has meant yearly mammograms, and precious little else. These approaches are certainly useful, but they are also expensive, riddled with side effects, and, far too often, simply inadequate.

Through simple diet changes, headaches can become a thing of the past. Menopausal symptoms may never even start. And women can gain new power over the most common and problematic forms of cancer. Everything from improving fertility to erasing the signs of aging to managing osteoporosis, arthritis, and urinary tract infections, has been subjected to new methods of research and can now be dealt with more easily than ever. The answer, more often than not, lies in nourishing the body in new and healthy ways. It's a prescription women will be happy to fill.
Chapters Include
* Age-Proofing from the Inside
* Diet and the Menstrual Cycle
* Enhancing Fertility
* A Healthy, Drug-Free Menopause
* The Keys to Easy Weight Loss
* Cancer Prevention
* Protecting Your Heart
* Using Foods Against Arthritis
* Keeping Bones Strong
* Free Yourself from Headaches
* Urinary Tract Health
Plus, 100 Wonderful Recipes for Wellness
Author Information
Ms. Kieswer is the editor of Good Medicine magazine, PCRM's quarterly publication for member physicians and laypersons. Her freelance articles on vegetarian nutrition have appeared in Minority Health Today, Plus, Better Nutrition, Vibrant Life, Essence, and other magazines. She has a B.A. in Journalism from the University of South Carolina.

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