Once a Month: Understanding and Treating PMS Review

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(More customer reviews)While there's some good advice in this book, i was a little disappointed.Dalton clearly knows her subject, but in spite of her interesting chapter on the fight to get PMS recognized as a physical, not a psychological, problem, her book treats PMS mostly from a psychological and sociological point of view.Many many pages cover relationships, impact of PMS on the family and workplace, studies of girls' school examination performance at different times of their cycles, etc. etc.
Meanwhile, real medical advice is somewhat scanty.There's a good chapter about menopause, but its relevance is marginal. Exercise is barely mentioned, and the advice about insomnia (lie peacefully and "think happy thoughts"?!That's IT?!) set my teeth on edge.
Strengths of this book:the dietary advice, for maintaining an even blood sugar level, is rather good.Niels Lauersen, in his unfortunately out-of-print "PMS" book, took a different approach, that of combining carbohydrates with protein, but Dalton's "Three-Hourly Starch Diet" might be excellent for some women's metabolisms. And the symptom section covers headaches quite well.
In other words, it depends on what you're looking for.If you are interested in researching the topic of PMS, Dalton is undeniably "the foremost authority on PMS," and the book would rate 5 stars.On a practical level, i can't give it more than 3.

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Product Description:
Surveys show that 75 percent of women experience some aspect of PMS. This new edition of Once a Month discusses the most common symptoms, offers self-help strategies, and includes new information on the effects of PMS on osteoporosis.