A passionate women’s-health guide.
An Arizona-based physician aims to help women live better lives through hormone replacement therapy in this debut self-help guide.
DeRosa, a physician, often sees patients suffering from maddening menopausal symptoms without proper treatment, including migraines, depression, anxiety, heart palpitations and a lack of sexual desire. As a result, she’s on a mission is to address what she calls a “hormonal disorder crisis” among aging women. Overall, her message is one of empowerment: “Take control of your hormonal health! We are women, hear us roar!” She cites money, misogyny and religious and political ideology as factors that contribute to the problem. A hefty part of this short read deals with issues of sexuality, with lessons that directly tie desire to hormones. She points out that doctors don’t take women’s sexuality seriously, and that too many of them rely on a flawed Women’s Health Initiative study that warned of the dangers of hormone replacement therapy. She also says that doctors often prescribe antidepressants or therapy for problems that will only respond to hormone replacement. They just don’t know any better, she says; they lack the training, and they’re unduly influenced by Big Pharma. DeRosa explains hormone-disorder symptoms in simple terms, focusing on the three main culprits: estrogen, testosterone and thyroid hormones. Using metaphors and visualizations, she helps to simplify hormones’ complicated roles. She also effectively uses case studies to illustrate various outcomes and treatments. For example, the story of Ashley, a 27-year-old with complicated hormone issues, fuels DeRosa’s argument that such problems aren’t reserved for older women; the author herself experienced menopause at the age of 35. The wealth of information here can be frightening, even when DeRosa attempts to lighten the tone, but she offers many helpful tips on how to choose the right doctor for hormone replacement, as well as a checklist of symptoms, and even testimonial letters from satisfied husbands.
A passionate women’s-health guide.Pub Date: March 1, 2014
ISBN: 978-0991459209
Page Count: 128
Publisher: Mira Vita, LLC
Review Posted Online: Oct. 13, 2014
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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An extravaganza in Bemelmans' inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. For Bemelmans was "the man who came to cocktails". And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Lady Mendl was an incredible person,- self-made in proper American tradition on the one hand, for she had been haunted by the poverty of her childhood, and the years of struggle up from its ugliness,- until she became synonymous with the exotic, exquisite, worshipper at beauty's whrine. Bemelmans draws a portrait in extremes, through apt descriptions, through hilarious anecdote, through surprisingly sympathetic and understanding bits of appreciation. The scene shifts from Hollywood to the home she loved the best in Versailles. One meets in passing a vast roster of famous figures of the international and artistic set. And always one feels Bemelmans, slightly offstage, observing, recording, commenting, illustrated.
Pub Date: Feb. 23, 1955
ISBN: 0670717797
Page Count: -
Publisher: Viking
Review Posted Online: Oct. 25, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1955
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