Get Healthy, Stay Healthy: The Essential Guide to Food, Life and Love - Softcover

Ackerman, Laura

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1840182032 ISBN 13: 9781840182033

Publisher: Mainstream Publishing, 1999

Synopsis

From one of the UK's leading health and diet experts comes this handbook for women, containing insights into how to lead a healthier life and how to achieve an ideal weight safely and effectively. No calorie counting is involved. Instead the emphasis is placed on losing weight through an improvement in overall health and through promotion of simple, nutritious food. It looks in particular at detoxing and cleansing, how to improve the effectiveness of the digestive system, what to eat and what to avoid, and the importance of vitamins and minerals. It explains how the diet can help with conception, and includes advice on the best food for new mothers and what to eat to avoid PMT and improve sex life.

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Review

Billed as "a woman's handbook", Get Healthy, Stay Healthy covers all the health problems a woman is likely to encounter throughout her life--from periods to pregnancy and on to the menopause, Laura Ackerman offers a plan which she claims will keep female energy levels high and stress levels low no matter what nature decides to throw at you.

Discussions on diet dominate the first half of the book--not surprising considering the pressure modern women are under to conform to a particular body shape. But Ackerman's message is simple: eat the correct foods in the correct amounts at the correct time and you will be slender, healthy and fit and you will never have to "diet" again.

Chatty in tone, Get Healthy, Stay Healthy is more like having a gossip with your best friend than listening to a health sage. But though there is undoubtedly a lot of wisdom contained within the book (don't yo-yo diet; get plenty of rest and relaxation; don't become a carbohydrate addict) there is nothing revelatory or unexpected--Ackerman's ground has been well trodden before.

An evangelist for the cause of taking vitamins, her advice on supplements is untempered by the caveat that not enough is known about vitamins and combining them regularly and in fairly large doses to determine the side effects. (Or the fact that it is an expensive habit!)

That said, Get Healthy, Stay Healthy contains a breadth of information not usually available in one book. Ackerman advocates a holistic approach to health and doesn't believe in surgery, so whether readers agree with her beliefs or not, her values will certainly get you questioning yours.

As a general guide to the principles of female health, this book is invaluable in presenting one route for the path to mental and physical stability. A stimulating read and a good starting point for any woman wanting to take control of their own health. --Lucie Naylor

Edition details

• Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1840182032
• ISBN 13: 9781840182033
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176