Women's Health

The Smart Way to Get Fit Fast
Lean, Long & Strong: The 6-Week Strength-Training, Fat-Burning Program for Women
by Wini Linguvic
Work Out Smarter, Not Harder. In case you are wondering, I'm here to give you some answers: Yes, you can be strong and be graceful. Yes, you can get fit and still have time for the rest of your life. Yes, you can enjoy a workout that makes you feel

Putting New Muscle into Weight Loss
Strong Women Stay Slim
by Miriam E. Nelson, Ph.D., Sarah Wernick, Ph.D.
I'm a scientist at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University. For the past ten years, our laboratory has studied the health benefits of strength training. My particular research has shown that strengthening exercise

Your Annual Pap Smear and Pelvic Exam
The Doctor's Complete College Girls' Health Guide
by Jennifer Wider, M.D.
Most people think that a girl enters womanhood when she gets her period. But that was true way back when marriages were arranged, girls were having babies at thirteen, and the average life expectancy was forty.

Your Beauty-Wellness Test

Are You Primarily Yin, Yang, or Yin/Yang? Now that I've provided you with a wealth of new information about health and beauty in the Chinese tradition, it's time to discover how to put these principles to use.

Perfect Motivation
The Ultimate Body: Ten Perfect Workouts for Women
by Liz Neporent
To tell you the truth, I never really understood why it is so hard for people to get into exercise. For me, working out has always been as natural as breathing. I mean, why sit on the couch watching Simpsons reruns and eating Doritos when you could be out

Perfect Motivation
The Ultimate Body: Ten Perfect Workouts for Women
by Liz Neporent
To tell you the truth, I never really understood why it is so hard for people to get into exercise. For me, working out has always been as natural as breathing. I mean, why sit on the couch watching Simpsons reruns and eating Doritos when you could be out

What Is Memory? The Anatomy of Forgetfulness
Female and Forgetful: A Six-Step Program to Help Restore Your Memory and Sharpen Your Mind
by Elisa Lottor, Ph.D., N.D., Nancy P. Bruning
While scientists debate the subtleties of the categories of memory loss, women march through my office with a litany of complaints. Often the first thing they notice is that they are forgetting names of someone they've just been introduced

The Perils of Low-Fat Eating
Super Nutrition for Women (Revised Edition)
by Ann Louise Gittleman, Ph.D., C.N.S.
The chronic dieter, nutrition buff, and grabber are three basic female eating types I have noted over the past decades all over the country. These eating types have also been the focus of attention for USDA nutrition educators and other researchers

What Strength Training Will Do For You. Yes, You Can Turn Back the Clock!
Strong Women Stay Young (Revised Edition)
by Miriam E. Nelson, Ph.D., Sarah Wernick, Ph.D.
Ask Bernice for help, and she says, 'Sure.' Twice a week she chases after two young boys to give their mom a break. When her church needs a volunteer-whether it's to knit baby hats or to scramble eggs for a hundred people-they call Bernice.

Unasked Questions
Just Like a Woman: How Gender Science Is Redefining What Makes Us Female
by Dianne Hales
A lack of actual proof for their premises has never gotten in the way of medical experts' assumption that they just know the way women are. Aristotle just knew that women nursed their babies with blanched menstrual blood stored in their breasts.

The Breakthrough for Women
Body for Life for Women: A Woman's Plan for Physical and Mental Transformation
by Pamela Peeke, M.D., M.P.H
We met on a fine autumn day in 2001. Then 48, Margaret, a talented editor who sat anxiously in my waiting room, was in full-throttle perimenopause. I led her to my office, offered her a seat in the Victorian armchair across from my desk, and asked why she

Cancer
The Sexy Years: Discover the Hormone Connection: The Secret to Fabulous Sex, Great Health, and Vitality, for Women and Men
by Suzanne Somers
The last words I ever thought I'd hear about myself were 'You have breast cancer.' It was as though someone had dropped a load of lead on my head. I felt stunned. This is something that happens to other people, I thought. Not me.

Creating Health
Natural Choices for Women's Health : How the Secrets of Natural and Chinese Medicine Can Create a Lifetime of Wellness
by Dr. Laurie Steelsmith
Creating great health means making the right choices, but all too frequently my patients aren't aware of what the right choices are. To help point the way toward optimal health in this chapter I have outlined a way of life that I call the Naturally Health

Women and Nutrition: Vitamins, Calcium, Iron, Calories, Weight Control, Cholesterol
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Breast cancer. Osteoporosis. Iron deficiency. Weight reduction. What do these things have in common? They are either unique to women, or are more prevalent in women. And they affect current recommendations on what women should eat for optimum health.

My Story
Real Fitness for Real Women: A Unique Workout Program for the Plus-Size Woman
by Rochelle Rice
I grew up in front of the mirror. I was a dancer from the age of three, and with each passing year I watched myself more and more critically, scrutinizing my young form for imperfections. As my body began to develop in adolescence into a real woman's body

My Personal Journey
What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Osteoporosis: Help Prevent-and Even Reverse-the Disease That Burdens Millions of Women
by Felicia Cosman, M.D.
I first considered having a bone density test when I turned forty a few years ago, but not because I was overly concerned about osteoporosis, ironically. I had decided I was done with childbearing after having three perfectly healthy, wonderful children.

This Is Your Brain
The New Feminine Brain: How Women Can Develop Their Inner Strengths, Genius, and Intuition
by Mona Lisa Schulz, M.D., Ph.D.
Women have a unique feminine brain. It is different from a man's brain. And it has its own styles of thought. Yet for the last fifty years women have had to fit their brains into a 'male' world.

Fibroids
What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Fibroids: New Techniques and Therapies-Including Breakthrough Alternatives to Hysterectomy
by Scott C. Goodwin, M.D., Michael S. Broder, M.D., M.S.H.S., David Drum
Fibroid tumors are the leading reason why more than 500,000 American women have hysterectomies each year. Fibroids are benign tumors that arise from the smooth muscle layer of the uterus. As They grow larger, they can put pressure on neighboring organs

Eating Well and Loving It
Strong Women Eat Well
by Miriam E. Nelson, Ph.D.
Dr. Miriam Nelson clears away the misconceptions and myths-often fueled by the proponents of diets that focus on weight loss-and explains how to make the right food decisions. She offers sound, scientifically based advice, and shows women how to finally

Women's Hearts Are Different
The Women's Healthy Heart Program : Lifesaving Strategies for Preventing and Healing Heart Disease
by Nieca Goldberg, M.D.
One out of every two women will die of heart disease. It is the single greatest health risk for women today-more than stroke and all cancers combined. Women experience heart disease in a fundamentally different way than men do.