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The Complete Book of Menopause: Every Woman's Guide to Good Health
The Complete Book of Menopause Every Woman's Guide to Good Health Author:Carol Landau, Michele G. Cyr, Anne W. Moulton Unlike any prior book on the subject of menopause, The Complete Book of Menopause gives the reader comprehensive, reassuring, and upbeat information about every aspect of this perfectly normal stage of life. Providing up-to-date medical information, it also covers a multiplicity of the situations that challenge women as they reach... more » their middle years.
The authors, a psychologist and two internists, are pioneers in the effort to see women not as the sum of their organs but as full human beings. Founders of a Brown University women's health practice, they have listened to their patients and leaned from them. This book:
• has the single most sensible chapter on hormone replacement
• explains hot flashes
• gives sound and reassuring advice about issues surrounding sexuality
• presents timely, important information about maintaining strong bones and a sound heart through the years
• deals with both the myth of depression and the reality of stress
• encourages the adoption of a healthy lifestyle based on the maintenance of a positive attitude and a sense of humor
• provides a comprehensive list of resources
• answers the 100 most commonly asked questions from the authors' Town Meetings« less