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Contemporary Women’s Health: Issues for Today and the Future
Contemporary Women’s Health provides a balanced, comprehensive understanding of the health issues affecting women. Health information is presented within the context of the social and political forces affecting women of all ages, races, and ethnicities. Prevention, health promotion and becoming a wise health care consumer are emphasized throughout the text, while the impact of lifestyle issues and relationships throughout the lifespan on women’s health are explored.
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Women’s Health Perfect Body Diet: The Ultimate Weight Loss and Workout Plan to Drop Stubborn Pounds and Get Fit for Life! (Womens Health)
Carrying the trusted Women’s Health name and featured on the Today show and in Time magazine, this diet combines a customized eating program with a body-shape-specific exercise plan. Women all over the country are discovering how it transforms their bodies in record time. Keys to the plan’s success include: - customization for a woman’s hormonal balance, body shape and current weight, individual metabolism, personal goals, and lifestyle - two types of balanced-macronutrient diets— Gree
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Review by College Student for Contemporary Women’s Health: Issues for Today and the Future
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The text is incredibly left-leaning and promotes a liberal agenda in the way certain issues are explained (abortion, gay couples, etc.) For example, on page 238 regarding the political debate surrounding abortion, the authors write, “Then again, in 1997, Congress reintroduced and debated a similar amendment to prevent late-term abortions in an attempt to further restrict a woman’s right to choose.” The authors obviously made no attempt to hide their political affiliations, much to my annoyance.
Otherwise, it is very thorough in covering a wide array of women’s issues.
Review by Little Miss Cutey for Women’s Health Perfect Body Diet: The Ultimate Weight Loss and Workout Plan to Drop Stubborn Pounds and Get Fit for Life! (Womens Health)
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Every year when we make the resolution to lose weight and stick to sensible eating plans and do more exercise, we face the hard reality that it isn’t always easy. This book is yet another way to help you out. We know diets don’t work, but what this book is here for is to customising and setting realistic goals that work for you personally. It’s written by the editors at Womens Health, so they have quite an extensive knowledge about what’s fact and fiction.
In the book they help you to figure out certain things about yourself and from there you know where to go with things such as exercise and things like whether or not you are a carb sensitive person (ie. after eating a bagel, some people are fine while other peoples energy levels drag). Working out where you fall on these kinds of scales will help you proceed with certain things to eat and things to avoid and what types of exercise are going to be right for you when maybe they aren’t as good for other people.
They talk about a soluble fibre called glucomannan which will make you feel full and include recipes in here that have that fibre in them. It helps control hunger by slowing your digestion to keep you full.
Overall this is an interesting book with some new information here and some info that we’ve read over and over again. Ultimately, the book is helpful if you are going to give it a good try. I usually read these kinds of books and then forget them, but I think this one makes great sense and is helpful when you are really ready to try something that’s easy to stick with. Some of the recipes I’ve tried so far are tasty and yes, filling and if you make these recipes and do the exercise and really stick to it, then that’s where the results will kick in.
Review by Becky Wilhoit for Women’s Health Perfect Body Diet: The Ultimate Weight Loss and Workout Plan to Drop Stubborn Pounds and Get Fit for Life! (Womens Health)
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As a long-time exerciser and dieter, I have been all over the spectrum, from underweight, to “just right,” to overweight. This diet really gathers all the things that put me in that “just right” zone and makes it easy to see why those practices worked so well for me.
The Glucomannan, contrary to a previous post, is really not a “gimicky” thing. It’s a suggested supplement that truly helps aid me in feeling more satisfied and, um, regular (if ya know what I mean). It does make your food thicker – the book is clear on this. It doesn’t make food grainy, though – at least not in my experience. Again, you have to experiment and find out which foods you like with the Gluocomannan, and then try to work those foods into your diet as often as possible.
With the low-carb or moderate-carb plans available to choose from, I think there’s something reasonable for every woman out there with this plan. And really…don’t we all know how we react to carbohydrates already? Despite the establishment which repeats the silly “Food Triangle” plan which centers upon carbohydrates as a blanket policy, that 9-11 servings a day of grains/starch doesn’t work for everyone. And many woman process carbs differently…I know I do. I was diagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome in 2007, and this diet has allowed me to lose about 3 lbs. already (and I’ve only been on it 2 weeks). And I haven’t been hungry.
As for the workouts, I think they are great. I love to go in the gym and lift hard, and this plan (I’m a pear) allows me to satisfy that with my upper body workouts, while still giving me the right guidance on how to train my lower body and how to structure my cardio plan.
I am happy to give this book a great recommendation. Like with any plan…if you want it to work, you have to give it two things: 1) 100% of your effort, and 2) a little time.
Review by ReadNReVu for Women’s Health Perfect Body Diet: The Ultimate Weight Loss and Workout Plan to Drop Stubborn Pounds and Get Fit for Life! (Womens Health)
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The good:
This book has a fast and easy way to determine what you should be weighing. The recipes are healthy (with a caveat), and the “Active-Dynamic” warm-up sequence is great either done once through as a warm-up, or several times for an exercise session.
The bad:
This book essentially promotes taking a “bulk-forming laxative” (i.e., the glucomannan) just about every time you eat. Its primary use is as a laxative, look it up for yourself. It is added to every recipe in the book (hence the caveat), and what’s more, you’re encouraged to add it to food every time you are eating out as well.
The book goes to great lengths telling you how much liquid the glucomannan absorbs and how it can make your portion sizes seem bigger because it expands up to 100 times its own water weight (as in, sit back and watch your food expand). You’d be much better off eating the recipes without it, or adding a healthful source of fiber such as flaxseed occasionally, instead. Slow down when eating, If you’re not hungry, don’t eat. If you think you’re hungry, drink some water first.
Bottom line: the recipes, diet, and workout are fine–ignore the glucomannan part.
Review by Holly Teicholtz for Women’s Health Perfect Body Diet: The Ultimate Weight Loss and Workout Plan to Drop Stubborn Pounds and Get Fit for Life! (Womens Health)
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I’ll start by saying that it’s in many ways my own fault that I ended up with a book I’m not that thrilled about. I bought it sight unseen after stumbling on a promo segment that aired on the Today show. I was on vacation for the holidays, eating too much and not feeling healthy, and after watching the segment on my computer, I felt very fired up that this book would help me meet my resolution to spend the first few months of the new year getting back on track with healthful eating and exercising. Hopped over to Amazon and ordered the book even though the “Search Inside This Book” feature wasn’t available (and I was out of the country, so I couldn’t mosey to a bookstore to check it out in person before plunking down my cash).
So, with that said… this book is fairly gimmicky, with two main hooks.
The first is the glucomannan fiber, which the authors promote as the Holy Grail of staying full while you diet. This book sings its wonders and offers a few dozen recipes incorporating glucomannan powder (many of which are frankly unappetizing — “Eggs with Gluco-Salsa”? “Gluco-Berry Protein Sorbet”??? Blech).
Because I already have a large collection of reliable and healthy recipes that I enjoy, I’m trying to figure out how to work this glucomannan into other things that I make. Truth be told, though I was at first pretty excited about this aspect of the plan, it’s now less than one week after the capsules arrived in the mail and I’ve basically given up on using them at all. I stirred the stuff into some cottage cheese, which not only did not make the cottage cheese more satisfying, but also made it grainy, blander than usual and unpleasant to eat. I added it to part-skim ricotta for a longtime favorite Weight Watchers recipe — this is the first time I didn’t enjoy the finished product.
Onto the second gimmick, to wit: attaining your perfect body requires you to choose from one of two plans, higher- or lower-carb, depending on your carb tolerance. To determine which plan is right for you, you’re supposed to alternate a high- or low-carb breakfast for four days, then each day assiduously log your fullness and general mood in a 10-point “Carb Tolerance Questionnaire,” on the hour, for three hours. Seriously? I’m sure some people have the patience for this sort of thing, but… It’s just *so* not something I’m going to do, especially when it means I have to hijack my excitement at a new year/new plan by eating a “large” (their word) plain bagel with jelly for breakfast two days in a week (which has zero fiber, is not particularly healthy, and is just something I would basically never do, whether I’m dieting or not). Not to mention that I am super busy at work and cannot quite picture explaining to my boss why I am pulling out a questionnaire and logging my satiety every hour until lunch instead of, you know, getting my job done.
So right off the bat they’re asking me to go above and beyond in order to get anything at all out of the book. And since I just frankly am not going to do what they want me to do, I can’t know which of their two diets is supposedly best for me, and I have that sinking feeling already because I’m essentially not following a plan at all, but combining the two plans and choosing the recipes that appeal to me. (Not “eggs with gluco-salsa”).
The workout plan is divided into two sections, one for “Apples” and one for “Pears” (pick the fruit whose shape matches your body). I’m still thinking I may get some use out of this section, as I’m always looking for good new strength training moves to add to my routine, but here I think the book could have benefited from larger photographs and color. Honestly, it does get dreary staring at tiny little b&w photos of models doing the moves, trying to match their form or figure out how you’re supposed to be moving. (I hate it when the photos are super small in magazines, too, and always wonder why the fitness editors haven’t learned the art of “styling” their shots to be as appealing as every food editor seemingly has.)
So to wrap up, not a great purchase or a very practical or inspiring plan for me (or for the $$$)… I guess it could work for someone just fanatically inspired to follow complicated advice to the letter. Needless to say, your mileage may vary.
Review by Phoenix Fitness for Women’s Health Perfect Body Diet: The Ultimate Weight Loss and Workout Plan to Drop Stubborn Pounds and Get Fit for Life! (Womens Health)
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This is a great resource for women who have been bombarded with misinformation regarding diet and training. It features legitimate science, practical advice, and real world solutions in making it work. I hope to see more women lifting weights-heavy ones! After I read it, I bought 3 more copies to distribute to friends.