This article promotes the effectiveness of exercise and nutrition as an alternative therapy for menopause and other health problems associated with aging. Suggests ways to strengthen the mind and body for optimal health and well-being.
This article asks what women have to look forward to about aging in our society. Explores ways that women can nurture themselves and each other in midlife. Shares a new approach to health problems related to menopause.
This article presents how lifelong calcium can be a strong prescription for well-being. Discusses causes of calcium deficiency, role of estrogen in bone calcium levels. Lists various sources of calcium.
Discusses the controversies surrounding osteoporosis as a "disease" that is trumpeted by drug companies, front-line advocacy groups and clinicians that stands to destroy the lives of tens of millions of postmenopausal women. In this latest revision of the 2003 eidtion, the author expands her focus to include those with osteopenia or low bone density who are taking osteoporosis drugs. Sanson maintains that these drugs "offer minimal (if any) benefit amidst ever-increasing evidence for serious harm, but they continue to be widely prescribed while massive profits roll in for the companies that produce them.”
Offers information about osteoporosis while looking critically at the evidence about it and at the pressure exerted on older women to prevent osteoporosis.
Discusses the Female Athlete Triad, three inter-related medical conditions of disordered eating, amenorrhea, and osteoporosis, common among young female athletes and active women.
