Christina Ferrare: Straight Talk on Menopause and Sex
"Every woman can take her health into her own hands and improve her diet and lifestyle," says television talk show host Christina Ferrare. "But for women approaching menopause, it's the best way to achieve optimum health, feel energized and look their best."
Ferrare has always taken a keen interest in women's health care. But her new women's health book, "Okay, So I Don't Have a Headache: What I Learned (And What All Women Need to Know) About Hormones, PMS, Stress, Diet, Menopause -- And Sex" (Golden Books, 1999), may become a boomer health care classic. Brimming with safe and natural, low-tech strategies for staying energized, recharging the libido, balancing hormones and reducing stress during the six- to thirteen-year period known as "the change of life." The book also contains 50 pages of Ferrare's very own low-fat, low sugar recipes, which aim to increase the amount of estrogen in the body to help reduce hot flashes, build bone mass and otherwise improve perimenopausal health.
The taboo-busting part of "Okay, So I Don't Have a Headache" is Ferrare's frank discussion of something that most perimenopausal women have long kept secret: Loss of libido -- and in some cases, complete lack of sexual desire. Ferrare's good news, however, is that there are natural and medically proven remedies for this vexing problem, and she has tried them out on herself.
"Every woman can take her health into her own hands and improve her diet and lifestyle," says television talk show host Christina Ferrare. "But for women approaching menopause, it's the best way to achieve optimum health, feel energized and look their best."
