Live a Little!: Breaking the Rules Won’t Break Your Health

By: Susan M. Love MD and Alice D. Domar Ph.D. and Leigh Ann Hirschman

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Synopsis: Later to bed, munching some fries, makes a girl pretty healthy and wise. . . .Yes, it&’s true—more or less. Why? Women do need to eat healthier, exercise, get adequate sleep, and take preventive health care seriously, yet it&’s equally important for them to relax. Relax, take a breather, and give up trying to follow the narrowly prescribed health &“rules&” that are constant sources of unhealthy stress and guilt. In Live a Little!, women finally get a long-overdue dose of realism about what&’s truly healthy and what&’s mostly hype. Susan Love and Alice Domar take on the health police, whose edicts make us feel terrible when we don&’t get eight hours of sleep or eat the maximum daily serving of veggies. Most important, they remind us of a forgotten truth: Perfect health is not achievable.Breaking down the prevailing health &“musts&” in six areas—sleep, stress, preventive care, exercise, nutrition, and personal relationships—these doctors, with a little help from the other experts of BeWell, cut to the heart of these topics and give us realistic guidelines for living a healthy enough life, one that also includes laughter, relaxation, and a commonsense attitude about being pretty healthy.To learn more health truths and whittle down your overblown expectations of yourself, open this book. Using science combined with these experts&’ surprisingly refreshing opinions, Live a Little! shows you how to be healthy without driving yourself crazy!