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...need to make it acceptable for workers, especially women, to take time off from their careers. They need to be able to take six weeks, six months or six years with a child--how-ever long they feel they need. After that period, they should be able to bone up on their field of expertise, re-enter the workplace and be considered as qualified as ever for high-level positions and promotions, if they deserve them...
...rheumatoid arthritis, cell growth destroys underlying bone, arteriosclerosis is a proliferation of the arteries' vascular wall, creating a kind of plaque...
...understand the risks and wonders of estrogen therapy, it helps to know something about the hormone's natural role in the body. Estrogen is powerful stuff. Receptors for the hormone are found in some 300 different tissues, from brain to bone to liver. This means that in one way or another, all these tissues respond to the presence of estrogen. Some, including tissues in the urinogenital tract, the blood vessels, the skin and the breasts, require estrogen to maintain their tone and flexibility...
...women with high cholesterol levels or other warning signs of heart disease. Indeed, Blumenthal considers HRT "a first-line therapy" for such women. Likewise, it is now standard practice to give estrogen to women with a high risk of osteoporosis -- approximately 1 in 3 U.S. women. Gallagher recommends routine bone-density tests to assess bone condition and at least 10 years of estrogen, beginning at menopause, for those with fragile bones...
Those who don't like that choice may want to examine the alternatives. There are other ways to fight osteoporosis and heart disease: don't smoke; get regular exercise that is both weight bearing (to prevent bone loss) and aerobic (to condition the cardiovascular system); eat a diet rich in calcium and low in fat. And, of course, there are other drugs for heart disease and several promising new ones in the pipeline for osteoporosis. Many of the "alternative" practitioners around the country are suggesting that women seek estrogen from dietary sources. In Los Angeles and Boston, Mexican yams have...