- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (Feb 1 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0446678716
- ISBN-13: 978-0446678711
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 20.1 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 590 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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#63,832 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #15 in Books > Health, Mind & Body > Personal Health > Women's Health > Menopause
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Fitness expert Kathy Smith has written a sensitive and smart book about what she calls the "half-time bell," also known as menopause. Using as examples her own hot flashes, raw nerves, restless nights, and memory misfires, Smith outlines an upbeat, trifaceted program for "taking charge of menopause." She addresses the three themes of midlife transition: hormonal symptoms such as mood swings and night sweats; the need to reflect and create a deeper meaning; and long-term health issues, specifically heart disease and bone loss. Each theme is explored using examples from Smith's experience, questionnaires, self-tests, journal writing, and relevant up-to-date information. Smith details dozens of strategies for taking charge--from herbal remedies to hormone replacement, from illustrated strength training workouts to Kegel exercises to keep your sex life active. Her optimistic and sensible suggestions deliver on her promise that menopause can be more than just a set of symptoms. --Barbara Mackoff
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In this effective guide Kathy Smith shares the wisdom she's learned during her own journey through perimenopause. Information is included on losing weight, staying flexible, reducing stress, eating right and balancing your hormones.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Focus on Health!,
By Better Quality ""Now"" (Planet Earth) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Kathy Smith's Moving Through Menopause: The Complete Program for Exercise, Nutrition and Total Wellness (Paperback)
Kathy Smith is the "every woman's" health/fitness coach. It is very refreshing to work out with someone who's focus is FIRST health instead of body image. Always encouraging and friendly, not intimidating, her beauty comes from her personal training work, not as a star or beauty-image queen. Great and simple workout that can be used for ladies at all levels of fitness and especially those experiencing the challenges of midlife. Great information as well as extras including yoga and pilates. Highly recommended.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Reassuring Voice,
By A Customer
This review is from: Kathy Smith's Moving Through Menopause: The Complete Program for Exercise, Nutrition and Total Wellness (Paperback)
Kathy Smith has always conveyed that a healthy lifestyle includes very few quick fixes. It takes small steps that accumulate to form a healthier body and psyche. Her chapters on exercise are, as always, filled with great pictures and instructions. None of them require that you bend yourself into a pretzel or replicate moves you made in gym class thirty years ago. And her nutrition information is obviously carefully researched. Plus she takes into account "cheating." A kind and gentle approach to menopause from a kind and gentle lady.
4.0 out of 5 stars
A HELPFUL BOOK FOR A TRYING TIME,
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This review is from: Kathy Smith's Moving Through Menopause: The Complete Program for Exercise, Nutrition and Total Wellness (Paperback)
The authors' have done an excellent job of pointing out the importance of maintaining physical, emotional and spiritual health through this trying time in a woman's life. I particularly liked the suggestions of using herbs as an alternate to hormone therapy. Hormone therapy is an individual affair that should be discussed with one's one physician and there are extreme pros and cons of hormone therapy - it is not for every woman. Herbs, if selecting the right ones in the right amounts can be an alternative but I would suggest readers consult a qualified herbologist first, rather than experimenting themselves. Some herbs, like any medication, do not mix well.This book does contain some helpful exercises and self-assessment tests, though I did not find the tests to be terribly beneficial. The book is complete in that it covers all aspects of a woman's menopausal years; however, my personal preference on this subject is still "The Wisdom of Menopause" by Dr. Christiane Northrup. Kathy Smith's book appears to be written from personal experience, whereby Northrup's is based on qualified medical advice. Readers will need to decide for themselves which avenue they wish to follow, personal experience or medical expertise.
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