Yellow Kite swoops for women’s health guide from Wallace 

Yellow Kite has secured The Female Factor: Making women’s health count – and what it means for you, by Dr Hazel Wallace, a book which aims to address the lack of information and research around women’s specific needs.  

Liz Gough, executive publisher, bought world rights from Carly Cook at The Found. The Female Factor will be published in July 2022.  

Wallace is a medical doctor, registered nutritionist and founder of The Food Medic. Wallace began the website in 2012 in a bid to bridge the gap between conventional medical advice and the latest thoughts and developments in nutrition and other areas of life. She has previously written The Food Medic (Yellow Kite) and The Food Medic for Life (Yellow Kite).  

Now she turns towards the androcentric narrative in medicine to address the “urgent” need for information and research on women’s health needs in healthcare, diet and wellbeing. Using her experience as a doctor, nutritionist and personal trainer, Wallace provides methods for women to protect and maximise their health in “positive and empowering” steps, expanding the definition of “women’s health” from reproductive specific conditions to cover all aspects of health and disease. This will be the “go-to-guide for all-round women’s health”, the publisher said.  

Gough commented: “I am so thrilled to be publishing The Female Factor. Hazel is perfectly attuned to her followers’ and listeners’ issues, and when we first spoke about creating a book that catered to women’s needs, I knew she was on to something. Hazel wants women to feel confident and empowered when it comes to their health, and this book is bang up to date with scientific and medical studies to give women the knowledge they need and the tools available to help them manage their wellbeing – all delivered in Hazel’s trademark accessible style.”  

Wallace added: “Most clinical research ignores the female sex and while there has been a big drive to improve the sex/gender gap in research, there is still a long way to go. Women are still being medically treated with outdated guidelines based on male subjects and a male-centric narrative. I hope this book will make women feel empowered by their bodies, ready to support themselves in ways they never have before and that this new approach to health will be shared amongst all women and men so that we can begin to really improve the health of, and the healthcare provided to women for good.”