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Blessed Health:
The African-American Woman's
Guide to Physical and Spiritual Well-Being |
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Blessed Health offers
African-American women the medical information and inspirational
motivation they need to achieve total health -- a healthy mind,
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- Many black women will go to church
all day every Sunday but won't take one day out of the year to
get a Pap test and mammogram done. Yet that yearly doctor's visit
could help save lives.
- Often the first people to pray
when a serious illness strikes, black women may be the last to
seek timely medical care.
- As a result, they are suffering
with, and dying from, manageable illnesses such as heart disease,
obesity, cancer, and diabetes more than any other group in the
United States.
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It doesn't have
to be that way.
- Don't wait until a health
emergency happens before turning to your faith and your physician.
- You can achieve optimal health
by arming yourself with medical knowledge and a strong spiritual
base. Research has proven that a well-nurtured spiritual self
can help to replenish, rejuvenate, and safeguard your physical
self.
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Written by a prominent African-American
OB/GYN and a highly respected journalist, Blessed Health is a
personal health and spirituality guide for every stage of a black
woman's life. Included here is important information on:
- How your body works, and what
can be done to prevent or help solve common health problems,
including pelvic infections and fibroid tumors
- How to find a doctor that
ministers to your physical and emotional needs
- How to successfully cope with
illness, from a faith perspective
- How spiritual wisdom and prayer
can decrease the harmful effects of stress
- How best to take care of your
breasts and reproductive organs, and decrease your risk of heart
disease, diabetes, obesity, and cancer
and much, much more, including
the latest on managing menopause.
By Melody T. McCloud, MD
and Angela Ebron
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Paperback
ISBN:
0785275746
448 pages
Pub
Feb 2003
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