COLMAN, Carol

PERSONAL:

Female.

ADDRESSES:

Agent—c/o Author Mail, Putnam, 375 Hudson St., New York, NY 10014.

CAREER:

Health writer.

WRITINGS:

Love and Money: What Your Finances Say about Your Personal Relationships—and How to Improve Them, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan (New York, NY), 1983.

(With Michael A. Perelman) Late Bloomers: How to Achieve Your Potential at Any Age, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1985.

(With Stefan Semchyshyn) How to Prevent Miscarriage and Other Crises of Pregnancy, foreword by Frederick P. Zuspan, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1989.

(With Marianne J. Legato) The Female Heart: The Truth about Women and Coronary Artery Disease, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1991.

(With Carol J. Eagle) All That She Can Be: Helping Your Daughter Achieve Her Full Potential and Maintain Her Self-Esteem during the Critical Years of Adolescence, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1993.

(With Robin Dibner) The Lupus Handbook for Women: Up-to-Date Information on Understanding and Managing the Disease Which Affects One in 500 Women, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1994.

(With Walter Pierpaoli and William Regelson) The Melatonin Miracle: Nature's Age-reversing, Disease-fighting, Sex-enhancing Hormone, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1995.

(With W. Norman Scott) Dr. Scott's Knee Book: Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Knee Problems, Including Torn Cartilage, Ligament Damage, Arthritis, Tendinitis, Arthroscopic Surgery, and Total Knee Replacement, illustrations by Johanna Warshaw, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1996.

(With William Regelson) The Superhormone Promise: Nature's Antidote to Aging, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1996.

(With Marianne Legato) What Women Need to Know: From Headaches to Heart Disease and Everything in Between, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1997.

(With Julian Whitaker) Shed Ten Years in Ten Weeks, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1997.

(With Erika Schwartz) Natural Energy: From Tired to Terrific in Ten Days, Putnam (New York, NY), 1998.

(With Richard Brown and Teodoro Bottiglieri) Stop Depression Now: SAM-e, the Breakthrough Supplement That Works as Well as Prescription Drugs in Half the Time, with No Side Effects, Putnam (New York, NY), 1999.

(With Lester Packer) The Antioxidant Miracle: Put Lipoic Acid, Pycnogenol, and Vitamins E and C to Work for You, Wiley (New York, NY), 1999.

(With Lester Packer) The Antioxidant Miracle: Your Complete Plan for Total Health and Healing, Wiley (New York, NY), 1999.

(With Robert Rountree) Immunotics: A Revolutionary Way to Fight Infection, Beat Chronic Illness, and Stay Well, Putnam (New York, NY), 2000.

(With A. Scott Connelly) Body Rx: Dr. Scott Connelly's Six-Pack Prescription: Six Meals a Day, Six Weeks to Strength, Six Weeks to Sculpt, Six Weeks to Burn Fat, Six Weeks to Maintain = Six Months to a Great Body, Putnam (New York, NY), 2001.

(With Raphael Kellman) Gut Reactions: A Radical New Four-Step Program for Treating Chronic Stomach Distress and Unlocking the Secret to Total Body Wellness, Broadway Books (New York, NY), 2002.

(Gary Hevin) Curves: Permanent Results without Permanent Dieting, Putnam (New York, NY), 2003.

(With Gary Heavin) Curves on the Go, G. P. Putnam's Sons (New York, NY), 2004.

Coauthor with Earl Mindell of Earl Mindell's Soy Miracle.

SIDELIGHTS:

Carol Colman, a leading health writer, has collaborated with many physicians and other health experts to produce a number of health-related books.

Colman co-authored What Women Need to Know: From Headaches to Heart Disease and Everything in Between, with Marianne Legato, a physician and specialist in women's health. In What Women Need to Know the authors use a question-and-answer format to answer questions about women's health that some might be too shy to ask their doctors about. Topics include reproduction, cancer, menopause, medical tests, infections, and much more. A Publishers Weekly contributor called What Women Need to Know a "brief, well-organized book that is authoritative without being authoritarian."

In Immunotics: A Revolutionary Way to Fight Infection, Beat Chronic Illness, and Stay Well, which Colman wrote with physician Robert Rountree, the authors explain the idea of immunotics, give information about the immune system, and provide a list of supplements and a diet that can help the reader become more healthy and have a stronger immune system. A Publishers Weekly contributor wrote that "This common-sense program will be of great help and interest to those who believe in taking control of their health."

Colman co-authored Body Rx: Dr. Scott Connelly's Six-Pack Prescription with A. Scott Connelly, a physician and researcher. Connelly's path towards weight loss and a great body includes four different steps that are each six weeks long. Those steps include strengthening, sculpting, burning fat, and maintaining. Booklist contributor Barbara Jacobs noted, "Whatever works—and, with diligence and practice, this plan just might."

In Gut Reactions: A Radical New Four-Step Program for Treating Chronic Stomach Distress and Unlocking the Secret to Total Body Wellness Colman and coauthor Raphael Kellman, a physician and founder of the Kellman Center for Progressive Medicine, outline a four-part plan for those suffering from stomach problems. Natural Health contributor Adina Davis claimed, "This book is an excellent resource and will help you choose the right holistic program to fix your stomach troubles."

Colman returned to the subject of fitness with Curves: Permanent Results without Permanent Dieting, which she co-authored with Gary Heavin, founder and CEO of Curves International. Their advice is to exercise three times a week for thirty minutes. Along with their fitness tips, Colman and Heavin include exercises, recipes, and menu plans.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, June 15, 1993, Mary Jo Peer-Haas, review of All that She Can Be: Helping Your Daughter Achieve Her Full Potential and Maintain Her Self-Esteem during the Critical Years of Adolescence, pp. 1743-1744; September 15, 2001, Barbara Jacobs, review of Body Rx: Dr. Scott Connelly's Six-Pack Prescription, p. 173.

Kirkus Reviews, December 15, 1982, review of Love and Money: What Your Finances Say about Your Personal Relationships—and How to Improve Them, p. 1369.

Library Journal, March 1, 1983, Justine Roberts, review of Love and Money, p. 495; November 15, 1985, John Moryl, review of Late Bloomers: How to Achieve Your Potential at Any Age, p. 102; June 1, 1989, Debra Berlanstein, review of How to Prevent Miscarriage and Other Crises of Pregnancy, p. 136; September 1, 1991, Eleanor Maass, review of The Female Heart: The Truth about Women and Coronary Artery Disease, p. 224; July, 1993, Jan Wiedemann, review of All that She Can Be, p. 102; January, 1997, Anne C. Tomlin, review of What Women Need to Know: From Headaches to Heart Disease and Everything in Between, p. 134; August, 2000, Lisa McCormick, review of Immunotics: A Revolutionary Way to Fight Infection, Beat Chronic Illness, and Stay Well, p. 144; May 1, 2003, Marianne Fitzgerald, review of Curves: Permanent Results without Permanent Dieting, p. 147.

Natural Health, May-June, 1998, Marvin Fremerman, review of Shed Ten Years in Ten Weeks, p. 162; August, 2002, Adina Davis, review of Gut Reactions: A Radical New Four-Step Program for Treating Chronic Stomach Distress and Unlocking the Secret to Total Body Wellness, p. 90.

Publishers Weekly, July 1, 1991, review of The Female Heart, p. 51; April 19, 1993, review of All that She Can Be, p. 46; December 5, 1994, review of Earl Mindell's Soy Miracle, p. 73; November 4, 1996, review of What Women Need to Know, p. 71; July 3, 2000, review of Immunotics, p. 68.

Quarterly Review of Biology, March, 1996, Leon Sokoloff, review of The Melatonin Miracle: Nature's Age-reversing, Disease-fighting, Sex-enhancing Hormone, pp. 153-154.

Times Educational Supplement, July 7, 1995, Jessica Saraga, "No Exceptions to Larkin's Law," p. S14.

Washington Post, October 10, 1989, Jeffrey Finn, review of How to Prevent Miscarriage and Other Crises of Pregnancy, p. WH19.

West Coast Review of Books, March, 1983, David Winston York, review of Love and Money, p. 1983.

Women & Health, winter, 1994, Charles P. King, review of The Female Heart, p. 112.

ONLINE

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition Web site,http://www.ajcn.org/ (October 26, 2003), Abraham A. Reznick and Carroll E. Cross, review of The Anti-oxidant Miracle.*