ESSENCE The Black Woman's Guide to Healthy Living: The Best Advice For Body, Mind + Spirit In Your 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s + Beyond [Vinyl Bound]

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Book Description

Publication Date: January 13, 2009

From the African-American community's trusted authority, "Essence Guide to Healthy Living", is an interactive manual designed to help black women care for their bodies, minds and spirits. Covering both major health issues such as diabetes and heart disease and tackling everyday concerns from weight loss to balancing work and life, this handy guide has a reader-friendly tone, actionable service and chapters packed with checklists, inspiring real-life examples, space for journal entries and worksheets for readers to execute their own personal wellness plans. Developed with expert advice from leading physicians, nutritionists, fitness instructors, psychologists, spiritual gurus and other healthcare experts, "Essence Guide to Healthy Living" is designed to help black women lead healthier and better lives.This guide includes: step-by-step exercise plans; guidance for achieving emotional balance; tips for enjoying a healthy sex life; listing and explanation of medical tests; and, inspiring real-life weight-loss success stories.

Product Details

• Vinyl Bound: 192 pages
• Publisher: Essence; 1 edition (January 13, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1603200436
• ISBN-13: 978-1603200431
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 0.5 x 9.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #744,736 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

ROBIN D. STONE is an independent journalist whose work focuses primarily on health, children, families, and parenting. She is author of No Secrets, No Lies: How Black Families Can Heal from Sexual Abuse (Broadway Books, 2004). Stone edited and contributed the Afterword to My Times in Black and White: Race and Power at the New York Times (Lawrence Hill, February 2010), the memoir by her late husband, Gerald M. Boyd. Stone was also lead writer and project editor for Essence magazine's "The Black Woman's Guide to Healthy Living."

Stone has written and edited for several publications, including the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Detroit Free Press and Essence and Heart & Soul magazines and theroot.com.

Stone is also a holistic health coach, supporting busy women like herself to reach health goals such as losing unhealthy weight, boosting energy and stressing less.

The Detroit native lives in New York City with her son.

Customer Reviews

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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Just rehashed Essence articles., January 16, 2009

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This review is from: ESSENCE The Black Woman's Guide to Healthy Living: The Best Advice For Body, Mind + Spirit In Your 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s + Beyond (Vinyl Bound)

This book is nothing more than Essence article-type stories and pictures. Most of what's in this are things we hear everyday on free TV, etc., re: yoga, exercise. yada yada yada. And lots of recipes from the magazine most likely. Just buy a magazine! I don't feel this is worth purchasing and where are the medical expert doctors? The best black woman's health book also sold by Amazon.com is Blessed Health: The African-American Woman's Guide to Physical and Spiritual Well-being Also the book Prime Time: The African American Woman's Complete Guide to Midlife Health and Wellness is good, only about menopause. Those books were written by black women physicians. Hel-lo. I especially like Blessed Health because of the ob-gyn's medical information on everything and the "Prescriptions for your Soul" spiritual teachings. and the health questionaire. Essence is not what it used to be, this thing is just magazine articles rehashed. Essence made an effort, true and we need a new health book but this ain't it. Too fluffy. Don't waste your money on this. Pick up any Essence magazine, the same info is in there fo'sho'. Oh well.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best from the best, July 16, 2010

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This review is from: ESSENCE The Black Woman's Guide to Healthy Living: The Best Advice For Body, Mind + Spirit In Your 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s + Beyond (Vinyl Bound)

The previous reviewer summed this book up correctly....a rehash of old Essence articles. Personally, I feel that is what makes it so great. For years, Essence magazine has provided black women with the information needed to take care of themselves mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Now, all of the information that you need is put together in one place. No longer do you have to look through magazines to find what you need. Then, in some sections, all of the information is divided by age groups. It's wonderful!

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Healthy Living and Black Women, Living Well., October 16, 2010

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This review is from: ESSENCE The Black Woman's Guide to Healthy Living: The Best Advice For Body, Mind + Spirit In Your 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s + Beyond (Vinyl Bound)

This Essence book was released early last year and filled in the gap for books about black women's health. I fortunately saw a preview copy of the upcoming book Living Well, Despite Catching Hell: The Black Woman's Guide to Health, Sex and Happiness which, as we go forward, provides quite interesting discussion, info and data about black women's health which needs to be seen by women and men. 'Living Well' also addresses the social concerns black women have, and the effect social strains have on our physical health, and the author (an ob-gyn's) 'flowchart' in LW is eye-opening; no room to describe here on this page. Black women's health challenges ARE unique in this society. Essence magazine contributed to the discussion and 'Living Well, Despite Catching Hell' gives more info to carry us further into the 21st century. Denzel's wife Pauletta wrote the foreword to LW. Healthy Living; and Living Well--good reading for women of color.