Live a Little

The Research is clear, it's time to relax and .... Live a Little Breaking the rules won't break your health Susan M Love MD Alice D Domar PH D with Leigh Ann Hirschman Forward by Nancy L Snyderman MD hardcover ISBN 978-0-307-40942-3 234 pages 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.