Later to bed, munching some fries, makes a girl pretty healthy and wise. . . .
Yes,
it’s true—more or less. Why? Women do need to eat healthier, exercise,
get adequate sleep, and take preventive health care seriously, yet it’s
equally important for them to relax. Relax, take a breather, and give up
trying to follow the narrowly prescribed health “rules” that are
constant sources of unhealthy stress and guilt.
In Live a Little!,
women finally get a long-overdue dose of realism about what’s truly
healthy and what’s mostly hype. Susan Love and Alice Domar take on the
health police, whose edicts make us feel terrible when we don’t get
eight hours of sleep or eat the maximum daily serving of veggies. Most
important, they remind us of a forgotten truth: Perfect health is not
achievable.
Breaking down the prevailing health “musts” in six
areas—sleep, stress, preventive care, exercise, nutrition, and personal
relationships—these doctors, with a little help from the other experts
of BeWell, cut to the heart of these topics and give us realistic
guidelines for living a healthy enough life, one that also includes
laughter, relaxation, and a commonsense attitude about being pretty
healthy.
To learn more health truths and whittle down your
overblown expectations of yourself, open this book. Using science
combined with these experts’ surprisingly refreshing opinions, Live a Little! shows you how to be healthy without driving yourself crazy! |
