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Female Fertility and the Body-Fat Connection (Women in Culture & Society) [Hardcover]

Rose Frisch (Author)
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In this culmination of decades of research, Rose E. Frisch's Female Fertility and the Body Fat Connection explains how, in women, each milestone of the reproductive life span - including puberty, fertility, and menopause - is influenced by food intake and energy output, the factors affecting the storage of fat. The practical and remarkable results of these investigations are told alongside the story of Frisch's own journey as a woman scientist working to advance her argument to both the general public and the scientific community.

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Rose E. Frisch is associate professor emerita at the Center for Population and Development Studies at the Harvard School of Public Health. A former Guggenheim fellow, Frisch is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Clinical Studies Focusing Mostly on the Underweight 27 April 2005
By M. Rhymes - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
This book is meant for people who are 1) thin or underweight and/or exercise too much 2) a medical student or one interested in the mechanics of fertility or 3) Overweight/Obese women looking to understand WHY being overweight/obese is impairing their fertility (BMI > than 27). For the average women who does not fall into these three categories and is looking for insight into her infertility, I would advise this book is not the right one for you. If you are still curious, check it out from your local library (as I did), and you won't be disappointed you spent any money.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Clearly, it's NOT true that you can never be too thin! 13 April 2004
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Format:Hardcover
This fascinating, intelligent book makes for quick reading and lots of thinking. I wish I'd discovered Rose Frisch a long time ago, as she explains some events of puberty that, had I understood them at the time, would have alarmed me far less. This was an encouraging, lively, and absorbing book. Hopefully it will help women struggling with infertilty and body image to get to the bottom of at least one area of potential misunderstanding. I've recommended this book to several friends and will continue to get the word out.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Great information, tedious to read 20 Oct 2004
By A reader - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
This book lays out a fascinating analysis of the causal relationship between fatness and fertility, and it is undoubtedly a testament to the enduring power of the author's work that so many of the ideas in this book seem quite intuitive to me--I've grown up with these ideas generally accepted. The empirical analysis in the book is first-rate, and I found the population studies illuminating.

My complaint, though, is the the incessant name-dropping and asides about where she was when data was found or a conclusion reached are almost unendurably tedious. I appreciate that she has a great deal of respect for her collaborators, and I certainly appreciate how difficult it must have been for a woman to propose a totally new hypothesis to the male-dominated medical community of the early 1970s, but that really belongs in her autobiography, not in a piece of analysis. The inclusion of these personal asides detracts from the otherwise dispassionate, analytical tone and distracts from her very interesting and really revolutionary ideas.

I am, perhaps, too fussy as this is really my only complaint about the book. It is otherwise an elegant synopsis of 30 years of research and a helpful resource for those trying to conceive or generally interested in conception. But enough with the names and CVs.

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