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Cooking with Hot Flashes

May 22, 2010 Susanna No Comments

I went looking for this book as a gift for a friend (she’s not getting my copy) to find that Amazon have some great specials on it. If you don’t have Cooking with Hot Flashes, you can get a cheap copy now. It’s a great followup to Martha’s earlier book on laughing your way through …

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Two very different books on Menopause

April 25, 2009 Susanna 1 Comment

This week I had a look through my bookcase to check what I have dealing with menopause. Let’s face it, books go out of date very quickly. Menopause certainly doesn’t change, but new studies on subjects such as HRT, black cohosh and soya are coming in all the time. One former favourite hasn’t lasted the …

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Review : The Menopause Industry

July 13, 2008 Susanna No Comments

Never forget, menopause has great commercial potential!!! The pharmaceutical manufacturers have changed menopause from a natural life transition into a disease requiring treatment by labeling all aspects of normal aging and midlife problems as menopausal. Naturally the drug companies have no concern for anything other then their profit columns and if this causes anguish and …

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