Improving Women’s Health Across the Lifespan

Michelle Tollefson, Nancy Eriksen, Neha Pathak

"This women's health book is evidence based and comprehensive. There is nothing like it. Women need up to date information about physical activity, nutrition, sleep, stress resilience, social connection and substance use. In addition, there is a desire to better understand the power of these pillars throughout a woman's life including pregnancy, menopause and the golden years. This book fills that need." Elizabeth Pegg Frates, MD, DipABLM, FACLM, President Elect of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine "Healthy aging begins at pre-conception. Evidence overwhelmingly shows that it’s we women who—through our lifestyle behavior choices—can take far greater control of our own health destinies, as well as the health destinies of our children and generations to come. We cannot underestimate the power of what we eat, how we move, and what we think in regard to our optimal health or lack thereof. This book is a must-read for all medical professionals!"Susan Benigas, Executive Director of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine Lifestyle Medicine is the science of taking core principles and customizing how they're applied to each individual and each situation to achieve positive health behavior change. This book sets the evidence based foundation for how that process happens, and why it needs to happen, with the most important segment of health consumers - women.  It is the next for all who are passionate about changing how health care is delivered."Wayne S. Dysinger, MD, MPH, Physician, Founder and Chair, Lifestyle Medical “Lifestyle factors have a powerful role in chronic disease prevention, underscoring the profound control we have over our health.  Improving Women’s Health Across the Lifespan applies lifestyle medicine to women’s health, empowering women and their clinicians with the tools to transform their lives, and fostering a legacy of health for future generations.”JoAnn E. Manson, MD, MPH, DrPH, Professor of Medicine and the Michael and Lee Bell Professor of Women's Health, Harvard Medical School Chief, Division of Preventive Medicine Brigham and Women's Hospital, Professor, Harvard Chan School of Public Health

• Acknowledgments, Editor Biographies, List of Contributors, Introduction, Chapter 1: Optimal Nutrition for Women, Chapter 2: Physical Activity for Women, Chapter 3: Sleep and Women’s Health, Chapter 4: Emotional Wellness and Stress Resilience, Chapter 5: Positive Psychology and Relational Connectedness, Chapter 6: Avoiding Risky Substances and Environmental Exposures, Chapter 7: Models of Care for Women and Families, Reimbursement, and Telemedicine, Chapter 8: Adverse Childhood Events and Trauma- Informed Care, Chapter 9: Health Coaching, Motivational Interviewing, and Behavior Change in Women’s Health, Chapter 10: Health Equity and Women’s Health in Underserved Communities, Chapter 11: Community Engagement and Women’s Health, Chapter 12: Lifestyle Medicine in the Care of Adolescent Girls, Chapter 13: Menstrual Health and Lifestyle Medicine, Chapter 14: Women’s Sexual Health and Lifestyle Medicine, Chapter 15: Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, Endometriosis, and Female Infertility, Chapter 16: Lifestyle Medicine in Menopause and Bone Health, Chapter 17: Preconceptual Health, Chapter 18: Pregnancy, Chapter 19: Postpartum Health and Lactation, Chapter 20: A Lifestyle Medicine Approach to Breast Cancer, Chapter 21: Gynecologic Cancers and Lifestyle Medicine, Chapter 22: Lifestyle Medicine in Female Cancer Survivorship, Chapter 23: Cardiovascular Disease and Metabolic Syndrome, Chapter 24: Diabetes, Overweight, and Obesity, Chapter 25: Dementia, Chapter 26: Autoimmune Disorders across the Lifespan, Chapter 27: Psychiatric Disorders in Women, Index