Comprehensive health guide written in simple language and illustrated with many photographs, designed to appeal to a large audience of all cultural backgrounds, from teens to senior adults. Empowers women to: * Recognize symptoms relating to particular diseases impacting a woman's health * Explores possible treatment options * Covers the latest recommendations for key health screenings, tests, and immunizations This guidebook also contains full-color charts and diagrams to help readers understand their bodies and offers information not found in other women's health resources, such as how to teach women to read a Prescription Drug Label, explore insurance options, and tips along with graphic representations for healthy eating and managing portion sizes, and more. Includes a glossary, extensive bibliography, additional resources, and a cross-referenced index.

In this book (470 page, Color), we discuss the risk factors for major diseases that affect women- both those that you can control and those you can't. If it is possible to control a risk factor to lower your chances of getting a disease, we will tell you how. We will also discuss diseases for which causes and risk factors are not yet understood. This book also explains: 1. what happens to your body with certain diseases 2. tips for handling many diseases and health conditions 3. how to stay healthy during key phases of your life, such as during pregnancy and menopause 4. how to communicate with doctors and nurses 5. the screenings, tests, and immunizations women need 6. where to find more health information that you can trust In each chapter, besides important health tips, you will also find personal stories from women across the country. You may find that some of their experiences are similar to what you may be going through. Hopefully, these stories will show you that you are not alone.

A comprehensive reference with helpful charts and personal stories. The guide covers major diseases, aging mental health, reproductive health, nutrition and alternative medicine. It also provides advice on common screening tests and immunizations you may need.

This work includes 1000 entries covering the spectrum of defining women in the contemporary world.

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