Healthy Girls - nothing is more important than our health.
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Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom by Christiane Northrup
 Dr. Christiane Northrup has been a pioneer in the thinking that our emotions, and how we deal with them, have a direct effect on our health.  In her practice in Maine, she combines traditional medicine with a holistic flair, treating and counseling her patients back to health.  Having this comprehensive guide is the next best thing to having her as your ob/gyn!  You'll refer to it again and again.
Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom

 
The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet by Dr Bob Arnot
When Dr Bob Arnot first published this book in 1999, many in the medical community criticized him for giving women "false hope" of preventing breast cancer.  However, recently research has shown definitively that nutrition plays an important role in cancer prevention, particularly breast cancer.  That's why we love Dr Arnot here at girlfriendbooks!  Buy this book for yourself, your mother, your sister and your friends.  

The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet

 
The Okinawa Program : How the World's Longest-Lived People Achieve Everlasting Health--And How You Can Too by Bradley Willcox, MD & D. Craig Willcox, PhD.
Okinawans are considered the world's healthiest people, living well into their nineties with little heart disease and cancer.  The authors of this amazing book studied these people for 25 years and are telling all.  Don't walk like an Egyptian, walk like an Okinawan! 

The Okinawa Program

 
What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Premenopause: Balance Your Hormones and Your Life from Thirty to Fifty by John R. Lee
Many of us have heard the term "peri-menopause" but do we really know what it means?  John Lee explains with wonderful clarity how important this time in your life is to your health.  Particularly interesting is the section discussing xenohormones - substances in our everyday lives, such as meat, pesticides, solvents, etc, that actually raise the level of estrogen in our bodies.  Huh? Heavy duty stuff that is an essential read for every woman in this age group.
What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Premenopause

 
It's a Girl Thing: How to Stay Healthy, Safe, and in Charge by Mavis Jukes
Geared toward preteen girls, this book is filled with information they may be shy to ask about.  Peer pressure, periods, bras, sexually transmitted diseases, it is all discussed here. A thoughtful gift for the young girl in your life.
It's a Girl Thing: How to Stay Healthy, Safe, and in Charge