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

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I also found it a bit shorter than I was expecting, but not sure if that’s down to Kindle saying 30% but it was all appendix. Great book highlighting the unique health challenges that women face, along with some interesting information about the bias that women go through in the healthcare system. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. The Food Medic is one of the most comprehensive and reliable resources for evidence-based information on health and nutrition out there. That said, for a visual learner like myself I appreciated the translation of data/cycles etc in visual (and aesthetic!

Each month we pick a topic to focus in on and our founder Dr Hazel Wallace hosts a panel of experts before giving attendees the opportunity to ask all their burning questions.The Female Factor has been shortlisted as the Lifestyle Book of The Year in the An Post Irish Book Awards 2022. Dr Hazel Wallace, also known as the Food Medic, is back on the podcast for a third time looking ahead at 2023, and discussing with Adrienne the often overlooked importance of prioritising female health in medicine. I’ve been following Hazel for 8+ years and find her podcast so interesting so thought I’d give her book a go. 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. Some nice recipes, but that wasn't really my main reason for going for this book in the first place.

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.If you share your network connection, ask your administrator for help — a different computer using the same IP address may be responsible. For further information about your statutory rights, contact your local authority Trading Standards department or consumer advice center (for example the Citizen's Advice Bureau if you are in the UK). It was good and had some new/useful info but on the whole I would have preferred a lot more information and less chat/opinion. He is a senior clinical lecturer at the University of Sunderland School of Medicine and was formerly at Imperial College London.