The Women's Guide to Health : Run Walk Run®, Eat Right, and Feel Better

The Women's Guide to Health combines Jeff Galloway's Run Walk Run® method with the best medical knowledge to help every woman attain a healthy, active lifestyle. If you are interested in using diet and exercise to help prevent or treat medical problems, this action guide contains practical tools for you to review and use in conversations with your doctor. We'll tell you everything you need to get started, offer tips for finding the right dose of Run Walk Run that works for you, and guide you in preparing and enjoying healthy meals. This book is particularly for women who want to use Run Walk Run and the Mediterranean diet to achieve one of the following health goals: • Lower blood pressure • Better heart health and circulation • Lower cholesterol • Breath more easily • Control blood sugar • Restore bones, joints, and muscles • Improve mood, mental well-being, and coping If finding a healthy weight is one of your health goals, this book provides evidence-based weight loss guidance and explains how body composition changes improve health numbers. Inside, you will find: • Health journal pages • Three levels of 30-week training programs (Get Started, Keep Going, Burn Fat) • Helpful tools for tracking your progress • Strategies, tips, and recipes for healthy eating • And much more! "After more than 50 years of developing, practicing, evaluating, and teaching his Run Walk Run(R) method, Jeff Galloway is now partnering with two primary care physicians, Ruth M. Parker and Carmen Patrick Mohan, with over 50 years of clinical practice experience. Both physicians use Galloway's Run Walk Run(R) method to achieve their own health goals and regularly prescribe it to patients with common chronic health conditions. The Women's Guide to Health is an action guide that combines Galloway's Run Walk Run(R) programs with the best available medical knowledge for using Run Walk Run(R) and the Mediterranean Diet as key treatment modalities for chronic medical conditions related to excess body weight. It provides sequential action steps for overweight women who would like to begin a graduated exercise program combined with quality meal planning for weight loss. We summarize the evidence that supports our recommendations to achieve health goals. Run Walk Run(R) is then prescribed like a medication with the core components of daily dosage, frequency, indication, and method for building up to the cumulative dosage of 150 minutes of Run Walk Run(R) per week. Diet and nutrition advice is offered in the form of food prescriptions. Throughout the text, the authors integrate best evidence for forming new lifelong habits, encourage journaling as a core weight loss strategy, and use self-reported health numbers to catalyze meaningful conversations with health care providers."--Amazon.com. The Women's Guide to Health is an action guide that combines Galloway's Run Walk Run (R) programs with the best available medical knowledge for using Run Walk Run (R) and the Mediterranean diet as key treatment modalities for chronic medical conditions related to excess body weight Journal Set yourself up for success with Rx run/walk Find the Rx run/walk that's right for you You gotta eat : find your Rx eat Setting yourself up for success with Rx eat Achieve health goals with HER prescriptions.