150 Most-Asked Questions About Menopause: What Women Really Want to Know [Paperback]

Ruth S. Jacobowitz (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0688147682 | ISBN-13: 978-0688147686 | Publication Date: July 22, 1996 | Edition: 1

Award-winning medical writer Ruth Jacobowitz sheds new light on women's midlife health with 150 Most-Asked Questions About Menopause. Based on national surveys, questionnaires from over twenty thousand women, and the author's own distressing menopause experience, this woman-to-woman handbook shares important news in menopause research, accompanied by practical advice and realistic answers to questions ranging from "What are the signs and symptoms of menopause?" and "Does every woman need estrogen replacement therapy?" to "Sex used to be great, what happened?" 150 Most-Asked Questions About Menopause is the essential resource for every woman undergoing this universal rite of passage.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal

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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Harper Perennial; 1 edition (July 22, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0688147682
• ISBN-13: 978-0688147686
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,459,200 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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33 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is an excellent source of information for women, December 31, 1998

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This review is from: 150 Most-Asked Questions About Menopause: What Women Really Want to Know (Paperback)

I am the author of this book which is now in 13 languages, which proves that women worldwide suffer with the same problems and have similar questions about their menopausal and postmenopausal health. I think this book is an excellent primer and should be followed by reading my newest book, The Estrogen Answer Book: 150 Most-Asked Questions About Hormone Replacement Therapy. I have attempted, and most reviewers say succeeded, to educate women about how we age and empower them to get good health care. I have reminded women that our health is too important to abrogate its care to anyone other than ourselves. These books suggest which kinds of physicians to see for which problems and also suggest what questions a woman might wish to ask. Further they suggest how to get what you need from your physician, no matter how busy that physician is the day of your appointment.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars More HRT than Menopause, February 23, 2001

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This review is from: 150 Most-Asked Questions About Menopause: What Women Really Want to Know (Paperback)

Despite its title and the fact that the author has another book, "The Estrogen Answer Book," specifically about hormone replacement therapy (HRT), this books seems to deal mostly with HRT as opposed to menopause per se. "The Estrogen Answer Book" is more recent, which is important in light of rapidly changing medical opinions and outcomes of studies in the past few years. On the positive side, this book is easy to understand, and while she seems rather pro-HRT, Jacobowitz does not promote a "one size fits all" solution.