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Date: | Sun, 15 Mar 1998 21:03:38 -0500 |
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On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, Jo Yoshida wrote:
> If Asian women don't suffer from the hot flashes of menopause (I wasn't
> aware of this), then maybe we could step back and examine the larger
> picture rather than try to isolate it to soy products or under ripe
> mangoes. Hard, under ripe mangoes resist bruising during transportation and
> most people will wait until they ripen after they take them home from the
> market.
It's not just Asian women. All women in non-industrialized cultures do not
have the negative menopausal symptoms that women in our society have. Dr.
John Lee in his studies of progesterone speculates that it is because of
the lifelong exposure to toxins in the food, water and air in western
societies, that deplete women of natural progesterone and create hormonal
imbalances such that by the time we reach menopausal age we experience
symptoms that women in non-industrialized societies do not experience.
This is consistant with the general state of ill-health and malaise that
most elderly experience in our society.
Lucia
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