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Naturally Healthy Woman: The Essential Guide for Women Pursuing a Long, Naturally Healthy Life
Shonda Parker offers a unique perspective on the health and well being of women. While she presents several natural remedies, she also honors doctors and encourages readers to seek their guidance when appropriate. Her balanced, God-honoring approach to health has made her one of Christendom's most respected authorities on natural health.
This book gives women reason to glory in their unique design by our God, and teaches them to see each stage of life as part of their special purpose and creation.
She discusses nutritional and lifestyle choices that affect women from puberty, through the childbearing years, and as they age. Women need to prepare for menopause and the common problems associated with their aging, including osteoporosis and hormonal fluctuations, by building nutritionally and spiritually strong bodies. This book also deals frankly with problems, normal and abnormal changes in women's bodies through different stages in life, and how to cope using herbal medicines and supplements, and traditional medical procedures.
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247 pages, Paperback
First published January 25, 2002
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June 4, 2020
I’m using this as part of my 9th grader’s health curriculum this coming year. It’s a good book to have around as a reference for herbs and supplements to use for different problems. Some of the information is highly technical but my student is interested in going into nursing and I think she’ll find it interesting. We’ll also be using The Way We Work as a reference book while reading this one.
I’m interested in looking into some of Shonda Parker’s other books now too.
I’m interested in looking into some of Shonda Parker’s other books now too.
January 10, 2022
This was an easy read that gave lots of good information. It can be read straight through or used as a reference and research book. Shonda’s goal is to help you understand and glory in the way the female body is formed. She wants to give women information so that they know the health issues they may face and how to handle them, starting with diet and supplements long before drugs and surgery. I appreciate her willingness to walk through other options instead of more and more drugs with more and more side effects.
Her attitude: we are fearfully and wonderfully made. Her awe at the interworking of the female body is infectious. If you struggle with frustration or even a bit of self-loathing as you cycle every month and deal with all the physical issues that abound in your body as a woman, this might be an encouraging book for you to read. There is good information here for mothers about how to help their daughters from an early age to understand their bodies and help them have the best health possible. Shonda also encourages not just physical health, but mental, emotional, and spiritual health via your church attendance and participating in the means of grace.
As someone who has for various reasons always struggled to master my health and my understanding of female health, this book was a great place to start. It doesn’t go into too many gory details that make me feel ill, or into such deep scientific explanations that my eyes glaze over. I’m feeling more confident about my health and my understanding of how my body works than I was before.
This would be a great book for high school-aged daughters to read to help them understand their health for the future and the different struggles they may face. She covers cycles, menopause, PCOS, endometriosis, chronic health, and more.
Obviously, I would suggest, or insists, that you talk with your Doctor/Chiropractor before self-administering herbs for different issues unless you’re familiar with them and what they will do to your body. There were a few things she said that seemed a bit outdated, like using soy to raise your estrogen during menopause, but overall, much of this lined up with what my chiropractor had me do through various health struggles.
This is a good book to read and have on the shelf for future reference. It’s a great place to start as you take charge of your health and educate your daughters. It will help you select appropriate herbs and supplements as well as give you a good starting point when talking with your doctor.
Her attitude: we are fearfully and wonderfully made. Her awe at the interworking of the female body is infectious. If you struggle with frustration or even a bit of self-loathing as you cycle every month and deal with all the physical issues that abound in your body as a woman, this might be an encouraging book for you to read. There is good information here for mothers about how to help their daughters from an early age to understand their bodies and help them have the best health possible. Shonda also encourages not just physical health, but mental, emotional, and spiritual health via your church attendance and participating in the means of grace.
As someone who has for various reasons always struggled to master my health and my understanding of female health, this book was a great place to start. It doesn’t go into too many gory details that make me feel ill, or into such deep scientific explanations that my eyes glaze over. I’m feeling more confident about my health and my understanding of how my body works than I was before.
This would be a great book for high school-aged daughters to read to help them understand their health for the future and the different struggles they may face. She covers cycles, menopause, PCOS, endometriosis, chronic health, and more.
Obviously, I would suggest, or insists, that you talk with your Doctor/Chiropractor before self-administering herbs for different issues unless you’re familiar with them and what they will do to your body. There were a few things she said that seemed a bit outdated, like using soy to raise your estrogen during menopause, but overall, much of this lined up with what my chiropractor had me do through various health struggles.
This is a good book to read and have on the shelf for future reference. It’s a great place to start as you take charge of your health and educate your daughters. It will help you select appropriate herbs and supplements as well as give you a good starting point when talking with your doctor.
August 4, 2008
A very well done information book to empower women to use what G*d put on the planet to help protect our health.
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