Weight Loss for African-American Women: An Eight-Week Guide to Better Health

by George Edmond Smith

Offering a new approach to weight loss tailored specifically to black women, this guide empowers women to develop skills for weight management and healthy living. Providing simple nutritional information and exercises, it addresses the common misconceptions of many so-called diets—almost all of which overlook or ignore the ethnicity component so essential to black women—and replaces them with a sound, culturally sensitive plan for black women to lose weight and stay healthy. An appendix of health-care resources includes advice on finding a physician, alternative health clinics, fitness centers, and public health facilities, and a glossary explains common medical and nutrition terms.

368 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

George Edmond Smith, M.D., M.Ed., F.A.A.F.P., is a Board Certified Family Practice Physician in the Greater Philadelphia area and Assistant Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at Hahnenmann School of Medicine in Philadelphia. As a family physician, community educator, researcher, and author, Dr. Smith has presented research papers at many peer conferences and community forums and has been featured on television. In 1997, his community-based research paper entitled “African American Males and Prostate Cancer: Assessing Knowledge Levels in the Community” was published in the June 1997 issue of the Journal of the National Medical Association (JNMA). Dr. Smith works in partnership with the American Heart Association, The American Diabetes Association, The American Cancer Society, and many pharmaceutical companies. In addition, he provides internet health education for African Americans nationwide through his web site. Dr. Smith lives in Philadelphia.

Reviews

[Vanessa Thompson · Rating 4 out of 5]

I reread this book. It is a guide and I often consult it.