Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 200 pages
- Published by: New Harbinger Publications
- Edition: 1st Edition March 2004
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1572243732
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1572243736
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Book Dimensions:
9.8 x 7.8 x 0.4 inches
- Weighs: 6.4 ounces
Product Description
Solutions for PMS, menopause, weight problems, mood swings, stress, insomnia, low sex drive, and other hormone-related symptoms
This book, written by an educator and nutritionist with considerable experience studying the food habits of many cultures, provides readers with a complete, easy-to-follow program for making eating choices that can lead to better health through hormonal balance. Based on an insightful new approach to eating called the Food Wisdom Pyramid, this program describes how the flavors and colors of foods indicate the presence of certain phytohormones that may help balance and regulate one of the body’s most complicated systems. Drawing on memories from her world travels, cases from her private practice, and her own life experience, the author gives women practical advice on how to use their own senses to know what foods their bodies need. The program includes a section of delicious recipes, along with tips for shopping, meal planning, and eating well while traveling.
· Most women, at some time in their lives, suffer from debilitating hormone-related physical or psychological symptoms
· Clinical research suggests that diet and lifestyle changes effectively control these problems
· This is a complete, step-by-step program of sensible and healthy eating advice designed especially for women
From the first signs of puberty until well after the onset of menopause, women are acutely aware of the role hormones play in their lives. Most women suffer, at sometime in their lives, from some debilitating physical or psychological symptoms directly related to hormone imbalance. The most effective courses of treatment for these problems, further research indicates, start with changes in diet and lifestyle. The typical Western diet—high in processed foods, rich with animal fats, and lacking important plant-derived chemicals called phytohormones—might fail to provide women with the support they need for healthy hormonal function.
Publisher Description
Nutritionist and international educator Sonia Gaemi offers women this step-by-step program of food solutions to support their hormonal systems. Readers will learn how food choices can increase metabolism, balance blood sugar and insulin, and cleanse the body of toxins. The program stresses food choices rich in antioxidants and phytohormones that can boost the immune system, reduce stress, and slow the effects of aging.
Reader ReviewsI was searching for a way to balance my life. I work hard and have two kids, but I always found that my swings and shifts of moods and body made me crazy. I suffered from PMS, bloating and moodiness. I couldn't bear another diet! This book changed my entire life focus on eating and living. I don't follow every little detail within this book, but I do heartily endorse the lifestyle it advocates. Drink tea, eat small meals, treat your body well. Listen to the ancient wisdom of other women. Why are many other women around the world in better physical condition that we are in North America. We must look at history for some of the solutions, instead of just popping pills for quick fixes. It has taken me a year to get to where I am - but I am soooo much healthier, happier and more balanced. This review is my way of saying Thank you to Dr. Sonia. As a woman you must read this book!
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