No one asks a woman: 'How's the menopause?' Unlike pregnancy, it is a private, sometimes lonely time, and often distressing for a woman and her uncomprehending family. Debra Vinecombe has interviewed twenty women whose honesty, warmth and touches of humour take the reader into their homes, doctors' rooms, and work places to tell of sweaty sheets, memory fade-outs, anxiety attacks and treatment options.
How could a fitness instructor, writer and speaker on diet and health get colon cancer? A cancer that is usually associated with a poor diet and a sedentary lifestyle. There was no known hereditary factor. Debra Vinecombe explains how chronic disease starts and what must be done during and after medical treatments. She encourages cancer sufferers to be proactive in their healing and shows many paths that a patient can explore. Lifestyle choices are discussed and diet and stress are a key focus as well as the power of our minds to bring about change. A very personal account of an extraordinary journey.
White Bread is Debra's story about her growing years in Adelaide in the 1950's and 1960's. Discipline at home obeyed, all decisions made for her, sex taboo, so much unknown. Primary school was strict with the cane used for boys, dunce hats for girls; ink wells and nib pens. Warm, funny, sometimes sad, always intersting. White Bread is a story about memory, Adelaide and two important decades in history.
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