150 Most-Asked Questions About Menopause: What Women Really Want to Know - Hardcover

Jacobowitz, Ruth S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688115616 ISBN 13: 9780688115616

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1993

Synopsis

Addressing a population starved for information, the co-author of Managing Your Menopause answers questions about hot flashes, hormone replacement therapy, and more for the thousands of women who are entering menopause. 50,000 first printing. $30,000 ad/promo. Lit Guild Alt. Tour.

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The next stage in the lives of female baby boomers is menopause, and Jacobowitz (author, with Wulf Utian, M.D., of Managing Your Menopause ) urges her readers to learn more about this, while providing standard facts and counsel. By the turn of the century, she notes, the number of women in the menopausal age range (45 to 55) will swell to 50 million. The good news: she believes that this will be the first generation of women to approach menopause with the information they need, not just pass-along advice from well-meaning friends and relatives. Using a question-and-answer format (the questions, she says, were those most often asked by women with whom she spoke during lecture tours), Jacobowitz rightly stresses that menopause affects each woman differently, and notes that symptoms are more than hot flashes and mood swings. She offers tips on lifestyle changes and make-overs, improving diet, nontraditional remedies for menopausal symptoms, and starting an exercise program. The controversy regarding estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) for menopausal symptoms continues, and Jacobowitz notes that the fear that it contributes to breast cancer is the primary reason why women choose not to use it. Her somewhat strange response to those women concerned about what some researchers call a small risk of breast cancer: although breast cancer accounts for 27% of all cancers in women, it yielded its number-one position to lung cancer in 1989. Moreover, she notes, eight times as many women will die from coronary heart disease as from breast cancer. Does such reasoning make ERT a good choice? Author tour; Literary Guild alternate.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

One of the universal rites of passage, menopause daily affects approximately 3500 American women, who often find themselves unprepared and unknowledgeable. Jacobowitz, coauthor with Wulf Utian of Managing Your Menopause ( LJ 7/90), answers many of the questions compiled from her nationwide lecture tours and consumer education programs, providing reliable information on such issues as hot flashes, hormone replacement therapy (HRT), night sweats, mood swings, palpitations, and insomnia. Although menopause affects each woman differently, coping with the transition takes education and information. This book addresses those concerns and, read in conjunction with Gail Sheehy's The Silent Passage ( LJ 4/1/92), Germaine Greer's The Change: Women, Aging and the Menopause ( LJ 9/15/92), and Susan Lark's The Menopause Self Help Book (Celestial Arts, 1990), provides enormous help. Highly recommended.
- Janet M. Coggan, Univ. of Florida Libs., Gainesville
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0688115616
• ISBN 13: 9780688115616
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 238