Healthy Colorado Women

The book is an evidence-based source of information on women’s health issues for health professionals already practicing lifestyle medicine, as well as an entry level textbook for those new to the field of lifestyle medicine. The collective expertise of each of the editors along with content provided by leaders within the American College of Lifestyle Medicine fills a much-needed void within the specialty of Lifestyle Medicine and is for providers of women’s health globally.

HEALTH WISE is crafted as a sanctuary where women can seek support, discover guidelines, and explore strategies to make breakthroughs in all aspects of their health and well-being. It serves as a platform for women to listen to personal stories, successes, and wisdom shared by many others, fostering inspiration and connection to the sacred feminine and our lineage as women. Embarking on a renewed and revolutionary journey into women's health and happiness, HEALTH WISE illuminates the path to passion and purpose. This movement consistently sparks inspiration for women worldwide, offering something valuable for everyone, regardless of their starting point or unique aspirations. With practical and user-friendly guidelines, inspiration, and exploration from health and wellness expert Sue Van Raes, HEALTH WISE empowers you to take a transformative leap that will forever change how you perceive your health. Seize this powerful opportunity to flourish, blossom, and THRIVE.

A guide to women's health draws on the latest medical research to answer questions concerning a wide variety of health issues, with sections on how to cope with the problems of aging and a six-step plan for healthy exercise.

This practical and interactive guide shows women how to optimize their potential for health and well-being through in-depth information, self-assessment quizzes, and checklists to determine individual risk factors for common ailments and more serious diseases. Dr. Miriam Nelson shares the preventative measures that can be taken now to avoid such health problems down the road. From sexual and reproductive health to beauty, heart health, emotional well-being, bone and muscle health, and weight control, The Strong Women's Guide to Total Health offers a complete picture of the broad spectrum of issues that impact overall health. It is essential reading for women of all ages.

In the early days on the Colorado frontier, women took care of family and neighbors because accepting that "we're all in this together" was the only realistic survival strategy-on the high plains, along the Front Range, in the mountain towns, and on the Western Slope. As dangerous occupations became fundamental to Colorado's economy, if they were injured or got sick there was no one to care for the young men who worked as miners, steel workers, cowboys, and railroad construction workers in remote parts of Colorado. So physicians, surgeons, nurses, Catholic Sisters, Reform and Orthodox Jews, Protestants, and other humanitarians established hospitals and-when Colorado became a mecca for people with tuberculosis-sanatoriums. Those pioneers and the communities they served created our community-based humanitarian healthcare tradition. These stories about our Wild West heritage honor the legacy of our 19th-century healthcare pioneers and will inspire and entertain 21st-century readers. Because we can be inspired only if we understand the facts-and because facts are more likely to be understood when presented in context-this chronology includes national and international developments that establish an indispensable frame of reference for understanding how our pioneers created the local-community-based healthcare system that we've inherited.