ON 6/23, KEN STUART WROTE:
Women always have more difficulty losing weight than men, and the reason is not
very complicated (although solutions can be).  Pregnancy (and the monthly cycle
that mimics it) is specifically designed to add weight and fat.   Attempts to
alter the female hormonal situation to counteract this, often end up with far
worse effects like cancer.

Ken,

I tend to agree with your last sentence above, but it is more a personal theory and not based on any facts.  Can you expand on this or give some additional references?

The reason I ask is that I lost a cousin to breast cancer, and am also concerned with the high incidence of breast cancer reports in the Long Island, New York area, where much of my family lives.  People blame it on the water or the environment, but again, I have personal theories more in line with your last sentence.

Tony