Women's Health Wellness Reports 2008 Author:John Edward Swartzberg, MD, FACP, Joyce C. Lashof, MD FACP How should a woman live to ensure that she will be healthy, active, and productive at age 35, 55, 75, and beyond? In some ways the answer is simple: Eat a healthy diet, exercise regularly, maintain a healthy weight, follow a regular schedule for preventive screenings, and understand all that you can about preventing illness and about the way of ... more »life we call wellness. But in another sense, the answer is not so simple. Eating well and exercising regularly are elusive goals for many women; so is maintaining a healthy weight. A less-than-healthy lifestyle can be hard to change. Many women dont know what screening tests they need or perhaps cannot afford them. Others postpone tests out of fear.And as for keeping up with scientific knowledge, not only does it grow and change from year to year, so that even the most diligent person is hard pressed to stay current, but the media barrage us with confusing information. This new Wellness Report2008 on Womens Health can help. It focuses on what we currently know about the major disorders affecting women as well as on other issues of agingand tells you what you can do about them.« less