Linda Friedland
Dr Linda Friedland is a medical doctor, best-selling author, recognized international conference speaker, women's and executive health consultant and radio and television personality. Her television career includes several years as the medical expert for the South African Broadcasting Corporation award winning show - 3 Talk and she was an anchor for a weekly TV medical show. Her first ...
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- Nutrition /
- Wellness /
- Women's Issues /
- Work/Life Balance
Dr Linda Friedland is a medical doctor, best-selling author, recognized international conference speaker, women's and executive health consultant and radio and television personality. Her television career includes several years as the medical expert for the South African Broadcasting Corporation award winning show - 3 Talk and she was an anchor for a weekly TV medical show. Her first book was published in South Africa in 2005 and reached local bestseller sales within 6 months. Her new book "Having It All" was launched in March 2008 and a third is due for release early 2009. She is a feature writer for "Business Day," many health and women's publications, as well as the "Radio Doctor" (a weekly radio show broadcast across the African continent by channel Africa).
In addition to numerous presentations in the US and UK, requests for her as a speaker and corporate consultant have taken her as far a field as Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Cyprus, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, the Philippines, India, Turkey, and China in the past year alone. She continues to design and implement numerous health, lifestyle and illness prevention programs for corporations throughout Asia, US and the UK.
The mother of 5 children, she is listed as one of the 100 Who's Who of South African women in Woman Today-50 years of South African women newsmakers.
Having It All - A Woman's Guide to Juggling
This motivating and thought provoking talk is for women executives, professionals, and women in leadership trying to balance all the balls in the air at the same time - a successful career, healthy relationships, possibly children and a meaningful life. This requires organizational skills, effective time management, self-knowledge, honesty, integrity, and a most of all healthy life choices. "Having it all", is often having a lot less than "all". A lot less sleep, a lot less time, a lot less socializing, a lot less breathing space. It is not easy. It is often overwhelming and exhausting "having it all".
Take home value: You will leave this talk inspired with some thought provoking questions. It includes some common sense tools for nurturing yourself, relieving stress, and achieving tranquillity, clarity, and meaning. This presentation's purpose is to incorporating strategies to optimize personal wellbeing and live with greater focus.
Living a "Frazzle Free" Life
An inspiring talk about living in the 21st century fast lane. The presentation incorporates the knowledge and tools to manage stress and activate health and well being. An overview of the mechanics and physiology of stress and how emotional and mental strain manifests in the physical body and causes illness.
Take home value: You can expect to leave this presentation with comprehensive and accurate information as well as innovative health news on fitness, nutrition, as well as practical smart tools to live well thereby enhancing your health and your life.
Optimum Nutrition for Peak Performance
A healthy diet is certainly the cornerstone of a healthy life. However, there is so much hype and confusion about what to believe. Food provides sustenance and energy to every cell in your body. This presentation outlines the latest cutting?edge and up to date information on how your nourishment can facilitate healing, wellbeing, greater energy and body repair. It draws on evidenced-based science rather than sensational fads. It also includes the role of supplements, weight loss challenges, and healing foodstuffs.
Executive Health Program
The higher up the ladder of success you find yourself, the greater your risk for many illnesses. Particular emphasis on the unique life of an executive and the toll it takes on health. A motivating overview of the trends and techniques in fitness, nutrition, stress management, and healthy lifestyle management.
Take home value You can expect to leave the talk/seminar with tools and knowledge to enhance your health and your life. Up to date, responsible, clear, and concise information as well as strategies to prevent illness, optimize well being, diffuse stress, and live with greater passion and purpose. A large focus is on understanding what YOU can do at each life stage with regard to health screenings and testing.
Say No to Cancer!
Without doubt, cancer is the number one fear amongst most people. Do we literally have a "SAY"? This talk is an approach to all the life/health strategies that you can implement to attempt to prevent cancer. Many cancers are indeed beyond your control but there is so much that can be done at all stages. This talk is about a new paradigm of taking care of your personal health. An integration of the best of western medicine, integrated medicine, mind-body medicine, and nutrition.
Take home value: You will leave this talk inspired and armed with cutting edge but responsible knowledge about: - The common cancers affecting women and men - Early warning signs - The risk factors - What cancers can be cured? - Which approaches do I need to incorporate into my life? - What can you do to aid in healing and immune protection within your body?
The Invincible Man Syndrome
Men (and many women) are in the serious business of remaining tough at all costs. This thought-provoking presentation looks at the "tough guy" and the toll it takes on your health. Real men do not complain, true men do not feel much pain, and genuine men are always potent. These myths have helped to keep men at arms length from optimal preventive health care. Regrettably, the indomitable sturdy male exterior is not for the most part compatible with good health. In male dominated areas, any sign of illness (and even stress) is equated with weakness and many men go to great lengths to hide this. This stoical forbearance is what may cost you your health.
Take home value You can expect to leave this talk motivated to take a serious look at your personal health. You can expect to leave with some tools to identify your risk factors. You will learn how to incorporate strategies (based on cutting edge health information) into your life to prevent illness, optimise well being and diffuse the damage caused by stress. You can also expect to be motivated to make life enhancing changes and choices.
Are You Living With A Time Bomb?
Every year heart attack, stroke and cardiovascular complications claim the lives of millions of people, or at best possibly lead to disability and reduced quality of life. The incidence is even higher in highly ambitious, successful, hurried and stressed individuals. Yet, contrary to popular belief, the risk of suffering this fate is manageable ? largely thanks to improved understanding of atherothrombosis, a pervasive disease process that is widely acknowledged as the underlying cause of most heart attacks and strokes, especially among high-risk individuals. Do you know your risk profile? And what are you doing about it? Over and above these risk factors, are your lifestyle habits accelerating this process? Discover about early detection and intervention strategies which are key reversing the often inevitable outcome of a highly stressed heart.
