Book description
Throughout our lives women face a range of particular health issues
that can be both challenging and confusing. Now, in
The Seven Ages of Woman, Dr Rosemary Leonard draws on her
extensive experience as a family GP and media health adviser to distil
the health knowledge we all need as women living in the 21st century.
Practical and reassuring, this comprehensive guide offers invaluable
advice on the...
* EARLY CHILDHOOD YEARS - how to cope with your daughter's
physical and emotional development and ease her journey from
girlhood to womanhood...
* REPRODUCTIVE YEARS - juggling career and family relationships -
how best to care for your health (and sanity) during these
challenging years...
* PERIMENOPAUSAL AND MENOPAUSAL YEARS - a time of uncertainty for
many - how to achieve a sense of balance and wellbeing during these
years of transition...
* ACTIVE RETIREMENT AND BEYOND - making the most of these
'freedom' years and how to stay active and independent for as long
as possible...
Drawing on conventional and proven complementary therapies, Dr
Leonard explains how we can prevent and treat a range of conditions
through diet, exercise and lifestyle changes. She also provides tips
on beauty and skincare that will help us all to look and feel our best
- whatever our age.
Replacing doubt and uncertainty with sound, trustworthy advice, this
must-have guide provides women of all ages with the very latest
information they need to make informed choices about health and
wellbeing for themselves, their families and friends.
Dr Rosemary Leonard's work as a medical consultant to national
television and newspapers makes her one of the UK's best-known doctors.
In recognition of her services to healthcare, she was awarded an MBE in
the New Year's Honours List, 2004. Rosemary's ability to put across
complex health matters without lapsing into medical jargon has led to
many appearances on tv and radio. She has been the health adviser on
BBC1's
Breakfast
programme for the past eight years and has appeared on
The Wright Stuff
,
Good Morning
and
Open House.
She has 15 years experience in the print media, working first at the
Sun
and the
Mail.
She now writes a weekly health page for the
Express
and is a regular feature writer for
Woman and Home
and
femail. co. uk
. Rosemary also writes a column for the Tesco Healthy Living Magazine
and is the GP representative on the Committee on Safety of Medicines,
the national body licensing all medicines in the UK. She trained in
medicine at Cambridge University and St Thomas's Hospital Medical
School, and now combines her demanding media schedule with her work as a
partner in a busy practice in south London, where her special interest
is in women's health issues. She lives in Dulwich with her two sons.
