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How to Fight the Menopausal Blues

There are some issues that may remain unnoticed if you aren’t aware of them. Especially if they are concerning women’s health and fitness, they remain buried under the societal norms as well as the curtain of shyness, even in this era of technological advancement and gender equality. Woman is the center of our life and she deals with literally numerous issues in one single life. Right from her attaining puberty to menopause, life treats her with so many different changes that she feels to have a life full of surprises.

However, till she attains menopause, she has the best friend in her body and that is the hormone that helps her tackle so many problems. It is the protective agent that prevents cardiac problems, bone diseases, etc, and also maintains her emotional disposition. The hormones however are depleted after her attaining menopause and thereafter stars the real examination of woman. Well, not all suffer from menopausal blues but to some extent or the other, every woman faces some sort of problem during the peri-menopausal period.

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The Birth Control Pill and The Breast Cancer Connection

There is only one drug in the world so well known that it’s called “the Pill.” For more than forty years, more people have taken “the Pill” than any other prescribed medicine in the world.

Sex, pregnancy, and contraception have been hot topics for millennia. It wasn’t until the U.S. government approved the birth control pill in 1960 that possibilities for contraception changed dramatically. The majority of women — and plenty of men — welcomed “the Pill”.

The birth control pill was the first medication ever designed for purely social, rather than therapeutic purposes. At the height of the drugs popularity, U.S. Senate hearings focused the nations attention on potentially deadly health risks posed by the high-dose Pill. As a result of the hearings, pharmaceutical companies lowered the dosages and doctors advised women who were obese, smoked, had high blood pressure or a family history of blood clots against taking the Pill.

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Relieve your Menoapausal Symptoms with these Herbs for Hot Flashes

Menopause is an inevitable stage in every woman’s life. It is the time when the decline of hormones significantly affects all body systems. Due to this natural drop in hormones, some natural side effects will also occur. One of the most annoying to most women is hot flashes. This uncomfortable hot sensation drives most women to seek different remedies to alleviate the problem, including natural herbs for hot flashes. Hot flashes are not really a disease, even though it may feel that way. These days, the type of treatment you use can be very important to your future health.

Women’s Health Initiative or WHI is an organization concerned with issues relating to menopause. In the past, Hormone Replacement Therapy had become the accepted treatment to ease hot flashes. As the popularity of HRT increased, WHI conducted studies to uncover the risks. The clinical study concluded that the risk of having complications is heightened with HRT. Stroke, blood clots, breast cancer and heart disease are some of the related risks. In addition, there are other side effects associated with HRT, such as breast tenderness and leg pains.

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