Leslies Becks Nutrition Guide For Women: Managing Your Health With Diet Vitamins Minerals And - Softcover

Beck, Leslie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130897345 ISBN 13: 9780130897343

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2001

Synopsis

"... indispensable advice for women of all ages!"
— James F. Balch, MD, co-author of Prescription for Nutritional Healing

Leslie Beck, RD, leading nutritionist, and author of the national bestseller Managing Menopause with Diet, Vitamins and Herbs

Nobody can eat perfectly every single day. So how can women stay vibrant and healthy? Leslie Beck, Canada's leading nutritionist, offers natural approaches to managing the health issues unique to women.

Leslie discusses what Canadian women are eating and describes how nutrition plays a role in health. Women's health concerns are organized into chapters that relate to individual areas of women's health. Comprehensive chapters include Heart Health, Breast Health, Reproductive/Gynecological Health, Pregnancy, Mood and Emotions, Digestive Health, Energy and Vitality, and Immune System Health.

Leslie Beck's Nutrition Guide for Women provides easy-to-use strategies for managing women's health concerns through dietary approaches, vitamins and minerals, and herbal remedies.

What's inside:

• A close look at carbohydrates, proteins, and fat; vitamins, minerals, and health; and the growing interest and use of herbal remedies.
• Health issues, including symptoms, who's at risk, and what is going on in the body.
• Listings of dietary approaches, vitamins and minerals, and herbal remedies for health issues.
• Nutritional guidelines for optimum health.
• A seven-day eating plan

About this title

About the Author:

Leslie Beck, RD, a registered dietician, is a leading Canadian nutritionist and the bestselling author of eleven nutrition books. She is the national director of nutrition at Body Science Centers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0130897345
• ISBN 13: 9780130897343
• Binding: Paperback