Whose Body is it Anyway?: Smart Alternative and Traditional Health Choices for Your Total Well-being - Hardcover

Kenley, Joan

9781557043542: Whose Body is it Anyway?: Smart Alternative and Traditional Health Choices for Your Total Well-being

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 155704354X ISBN 13: 9781557043542

Publisher: Newmarket Press,U.S., 1999

Like a fireside chat with a woman who cares, here's an essential guide to help women organize their thoughts and questions about alternative and traditional treatment choices-from the popular psychologist and women's health and speaking-voice expert. Joan Kenley's own frustrating, almost fatal search for the right medical choice for her "female condition" triggered her passion to help other women more easily understand the medical maze of options thrown at them. With guidance from a distinguished advisory council, Dr. Kenley covers a wide range of concerns, including menopause symptoms, hormone replacement, sexual concerns, heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, incontinence, image and weight issues, plastic surgery, nutrition, exercise, and skin care. A unique feature of Whose Body Is It Anyway? is its accessible format: the print is easy to read, and important points are in bold so that readers can zero in on the most pertinent information quickly. The book is filled with charts, diagrams, and simple graphics; a "Just Do It" checkup schedule; a diagnostic questionnaire ("Your Health History Is You") and the author's deeply inspiring "Promise Between Friends Contract"-to encourage a buddy sysem whereby two friends can help each other schedule important regular checkups and, if needed, offer companionship through illness.

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From the Publisher:

Review from Library Journal, February 15, 1999
Kenley, a psychologist and women's health advocate, provides a valuable contribution to the ever-growing body of literature on women's health. Using a determined and upbeat approach, she encourages women to take charge of their physical, emotional, and spiritual health. She also gives them the tools, providing a wealth of up-to-date information about key issues that women face at each stage of life. Topics include detecting and coping with breast cancer, treating osteoporosis, maintaining optimal cardiovascular health, hormone replacement therapy, self-image and weight, sexuality, nutrition, sleep disorders, and menopause. This book is sensible, straight-forward, and readable, with helpful tips, well-organized charts, and simple graphics. This resource will enable women to be intelligent healthcare consumers, armed with the sort of information previous generations lacked and that physicians today may not give them. Highly recommended for public library and consumer health collections. - Linda M.G. Katz, MCP Hahnemann Univ., Philadelphia for Library Journal

Synopsis:

Covers issues such as alternative medicine, the signs and symptoms of menopause, hormone replacement therapy, and weight issues.

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