Menopause: is it a medical problem?
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Menopause is being medicalized and women are faced with the difficult decision of whether to take hormone replacements. Estrogen therapy lowers the risk of osteoporosis and heart disease, but it has side effects and research indicates it may increase breast cancer.
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 1992
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The estrogen alternative
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Black cohosh, an herbal alternative to estrogen therapy for treating menopause, has been in use in folk medicine around the world for decades. American doctors are discovering the effectiveness of the therapy in treating a generation of women entering menopause.
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2001
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A body of work: how to smooth, tone and glamorize every inch of the anatomy - with no exercise at all
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The cosmetics industry markets a variety of creams and lotions that are suppose to help tone various areas of women's bodies. These are categorized as tighteners, tanners, smoothers and silkeners. Various products and their effects are examined.
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 1993
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