The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute asked me to let my readers know about a new handbook they are promoting called "The Healthy Heart Handbook for Women." Following is the description:
"The 122-page, full-color, twentieth anniversary edition of the Healthy Heart Handbook for Women provides the most recent information on women's heart disease and practical suggestions for reducing your own risk."
I read over the booklet and it is chockfull of advice and information for women--so if you are a female reader or have a mother, sister, or daughter who you think could benefit from the information, please pass it along. You can download or view the booklet for free or for a small fee for a paper version here.
For the men who want to know more about heart disease or other vascular problems, you can check out the National, Lung, and Blood Institute's home page.
My wife Janet is a woman. I'll get some comments from her and report back.
ReplyDeleteHowcome women get their own book and we men have to share ours? I know that when a woman is having a heart attack she presents differently than a man, but beyond that? What's heart healty for a woman but not for a man?
ReplyDelete"My wife Janet is a woman."
ReplyDeleteAnd you wouldn't have it any other way?
Women get their own heart book because when their hearts are ok they're soft and they smell nice but when their hearts stop they get kind of icky.
Looks like a good book. I may get a copy for my wife who, coincidentally, is also a woman.
The book is for women, and unfortunately, up until now, women have not taken heart problems seriously. They assumed heart trouble was more serious for men. But they were wrong. Ask any woman in her thirties and forties if she has had her heart checked out or thought about heart trouble and the answer is probably "no." Ask her if she worries about breast cancer and you will get a resounding "yes"--even doctors themselves believe that breast cancer is more prevalent than heart disease in women-- so it is important to educate women (and their doctors) in heart care just as it is important to educate men.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the link. I'm also passing this on to my mother.
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of the heart book for women: OK so it is needed.
ReplyDeleteI do have concerns about health education: There seems to be too much aimed at women and not any attempt of any form to educate men.
It seems to me that all of the education effort throughout healthcare goes to women. That increases female fear which is bad for us all. It also detaches men from all feelings, which is bad for us all.
Health education is making us worse off and better off at the same time.
JW,
ReplyDeleteYou certainly have a point. It depends how the education is done. For example, it can't be good for women to read the heart-wrenching stories about breast cancer constantly in the women's magazine. I recently saw a study stating that these magazines were causing both women and their physicians to wildly overestimate the risk of breast cancer meaning that women often overlook other problems that may be more of a risk to them. There is also underreporting of some very serious risks for men, for example, depression leading to suicide. 24,000 men a year take their own lives due to depression or other problems. Male suicide needs more education as the symptoms of depression in men look different, just as women's heart symptoms often look different than men's symptoms. The bottom line is, it is important to address health concerns in both sexes, but women's health should not be given priority, actually men's should in some sense since they live for shorter periods of time.
Dr. Helen: I watch CTV's Canada-AM every weekday morning. They do health reporting every day. My informal addition shows that women's health accounts for a touch over 4 minutes for the sum of every minute aimed at everyone, children, men & girls (there's never been anything aimed at boys). That's not good, it scares the women & girls and it devalues the men & boys.
ReplyDeleteTry to change it though! Even comment and you are accused of hating women!
jw,
ReplyDeleteYou are accused of hating women because there is big bucks and a bureaucracy that demands that women stay victims in order to flourish. Ignore the naysayers and let them say you hate women. Just keep talking and focusing on equality and the pendulum will swing back to the middle. If you stay quiet, the bureaucrats win by default.
Oh, that's nice. Yes, let's target these persnickety 'bureaucrats' with all speed!
ReplyDeleteAnd here I have allowed my cynicism to lead me to the conclusion that Western Women have no real interest in confronting and eradicating the corrosive misandry that infests our culture! They are Womyn, hear them Self Absorb! See the Amazons scramble to the ramparts in defense of the Status Quo! Such a rousing call to arms has not been heard since the Vichy government sold out to the Reich.
Poor Womyn! Not only were they Oppressed since Time Immemorial, now they are being used as helpless pawns of 'bureaucrats'! Oh, WHEN will the carnage cease!?
Sounds more like Flint's Gunner's Parrot...
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