The Female Factor: Making women’s health count – and what it means for you (The Food Medic)

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I'm a girl who juggles two jobs, who loves to lift, who adores real food - and can't resist chocolate. Reminder: A recording of the webinar, virtual goodie bag, and CPD certificate* will be sent to you following the live webinar.

This bold, comprehensive guide to understanding women's health shakes up the narrative for women of all ages.She started 'The Food Medic' blog in 2012, as a medical student, in a bid to bridge the gap between conventional medical advice and the latest thoughts and developments in nutrition and other areas of lifestyle.

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As a junior doctor and a personal trainer, I know that we all feel our best when we are free of illness, full of energy and at a healthy weight - and I know it can be done, even if you lead the busiest of lives! Like all doctors working the NHS, she was pitched headlong into caring for seriously ill Covid patients, at a time when very little was known about this new disease. The male body has always been the default body in clinical medicine, making the wrong assumption that women are just smaller versions of men: The Female Factor will change the narrative for female health and provide methods to protect and maximise your health in positive, affirming steps, covering what we eat, how we move, how we sleep and the effects of stress.

The project, which started as a blog which has extended to various social media platforms, books and a podcast, been hugely successful and allows her to focus on connecting directly with her followers. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. He is a senior clinical lecturer at the University of Sunderland School of Medicine and was formerly at Imperial College London. She wrote the book, which was released in July, to address the absence of books dedicated exclusively to women’s health. In The Female Factor, she looks at all aspects of women’s health, saying that she wants to expand the definition of ‘female health’ from conditions that affect only our reproductive organs to the study of all aspects of health and disease, with the recognition that presentation, diagnosis, treatment and prevention may be different between the sexes.

I have to like it as there's barely any literature out there focussing on women's health in specific, but I really would have expected more from it. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

While nutrition remains her biggest passion, she realised that there was an unmet need for how women are treated in within medicine and healthcare. I want to bridge the gap between mainstream medicine and nutrition and help you take full control of your fitness and wellbeing, so you will never have to diet again. Joe is the only non-fiction author to have secured three number 1 titles in one year with The Shift Plan, The Shape Plan and The Sustain Plan. The day after we have posted your mail, it usually takes three more days to reach Western Europe, five days to Eastern Europe and seven days to the rest of the world. I’ve been following Hazel for 8+ years and find her podcast so interesting so thought I’d give her book a go.