Menopause can be a physical, psychological and emotionally challenging time for many women. They will spend half of their adult lives in menopause, according to statistics which shows the average life expectancy of women at 79.5 years nowadays. By 2050 women will probably live to be at least 95 years old. A new generation of […]
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Menopause Manners for Men If over 30 million women are going through menopause, think of what the men are going through! By Valerie Otto Menopause is not what it used to be. Women are approaching this time of life differently the new outlook is energized as most women are healthy and become free of many […]
Menopause can bring uncomfortable symptoms such as incontinence in several different forms. Even younger women experience occasional bouts of urinary leakage during pregnancy, after childbirth, and sometimes even during sex. But menses seems to bring out more occasions of uncontrollable incontinence. This inability to control your bladder can happen when you put pressure on yourself […]
As we age, is the loss of estrogens what causes the onset of peri-menopause and finally, menopause? For women, menopause is a direct result of the loss of estrogens in the female anatomy. The E, as it is called in medical circles, is a group of female hormones produced in the ovaries. These female hormones […]
You don’t have to look far to find the numerous ads promoting pre-menopausal and menopausal weight loss products. These over the counter weight-loss products promote the fact that they can combat weight gain in women who are pre-menopausal or menopausal. Menopause is a natural step in a woman’s life cycle, yet the accompanying weight gain […]
Last week I did it againmade a trip to deposit a check at our local bank only to discover once I got there, that my check was nowhere to be found. Hadn’t I tucked it inside one of the pockets of my purse? I ransacked my clutch bag, emptying every pocket onto the ledge of […]