Heart Health for Black Women [Paperback]

Dr. Beverly Yates (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 26, 2000

African-American women comprise the only demographic group that has seen an increase in heart disease in the last decade. What does it take to have a healthy heart? Why is heart disease so common among black people - and black women in particular? Heart Health for Black Women answers these questions with a combination of charts, recipes, useful information, and helpful activities. And it's a combination that's geared specifically to a black woman's concerns, with an emphasis on using naturopathic methods and changing unhealthy habits. With its in-depth explanations and helpful activities, this book offers hope, help, and reason to fight.

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About the Author

Dr. Beverly Yates' strong voice educates women about ways to take charge of their own health by encouraging them to adopt new attitudes and use effective natural therapies. She is a board certified and licensed naturopathic physician practicing in Seattle, Washington. Dr. Yates presents natural health care seminars across the country.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Marlowe & Company; 1 edition (January 26, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 156924619X
• ISBN-13: 978-1569246191
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,536,037 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The hidden dimensions of our health, April 11, 2000

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Aliou AYABA, MD. MPH . [e-mail] (Cotonou, Benin: temporarily in WA Seattle) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heart Health for Black Women (Paperback)

My name is Aliou Ayaba a physician from Benin in West-Africa.I have practiced in rural hospital in Benin for almost ten years now.I met Dr Yates by chance because she was willing to donnate medical equipments and supplies to rural hospitals in Benin after an ad I placed in a local newspaper. If I saw her book on stack in a library I would not have paid attention to it because like all today modern physicians alternative/traditional/ natural medicine is secondary, imprecise and sometimes not important. It is sad because everytime we want to make a prescription about High blood pressure, diabete, sickle-cell anemia, depression etc, we start with :" hygienic and dietetic counseling" even though we do not have time to explain all this section to the patient..But this is rather a big issue about the place of alternative medicine today. The book written by Dr.Yates impress me a lot for it reveals in a very simple language the hidden part of our health.It has more effect on me probably because I practice in a rural hospital in Benin where I cross every day in the hospital traditional healers giving secret care to their hospitalized patients just because unlike we modern physicians busy with "mathmatical medicine" they take time to listen to patients, their recipes are natural, cheaper easy to use and with less side effects...they care not only for the body but also the mind and the patient's environment as well. Cardiovascular diseases CVD are the first killer worlwide and as Dr.Yates indicates there is a single chance: they are preventable, their prevention is cheaper or only costs a little change in our lifestyle.For everyone and particularly black women all over the world I recommend this book because if today we cannot change our socioeconomic status which put us at higher risk of dying for CVD at least we can modifies slightly our lifestyle by following the simple receipes of Dr.Yates in order to enjoy this life that never rewind...

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Heart Health for Black Women by Dr. Beverly Yates, April 10, 2000

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"mahdah" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heart Health for Black Women (Paperback)

This is a very excellent book. I found it very informative and inspiring. I enjoyed the fact that it covered not only physical issues but emotional and spiritual issues as well. It made for a very good read because I felt the author really knew her subjects and what things might be underlying causes for ill health. I would recommend this book to all women who are on a quest to feel better physically and emotionally.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Heart Health for Black Women, April 8, 2000

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Mickey Lee (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heart Health for Black Women (Paperback)

This was a refreshing look into not only how to achieve and maintain a healthy heart but also the interesting facts that surround the history of black women and their cultural differences. However I would recommend this book to all women, not just black women, as there is a lot of beneficial information for all of us here.

Dr. Yates has a wonderful gift of not only talking in laymen's terms so that a larger audience can make use of this important information, but she also breaks down the facts that lie around the issues of heart health in a way that allows you to retain the facts.

The chapter on Estrogen Replacement Therapy was particularly helpful. With a sea of information on this issue, most of which is either scientific garble to me or that of pharmaceutical representation skewed toward profit margins, I was relieved to get clear information here that any reader will be able to make sense of. I walked away understanding much more about my own body and the natural resources that lie within me. Thus allowing me to make better decisions about how I will proceed when I am at the age of menopause.

I commend Dr. Yates on a job well done and I look forward to more information on other topics by her in the future.