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Resources

Books

Dr. Susan Love's Hormone Book, Susan Love and Karen Lindsey, (New York, NY: Times Books, 1998)

Estrogen: The Natural Way, Nina Shandler, (New York: Villard Books, 1997)

Flax Your Way to Better Health, Jane Reinhardt-Martin, R.D., L.D., (TSA Press, 2001), www.flaxrd.com

The Menopause Self Help Book, Susan M. Lark, M.D., (Berkeley, CA: Celestial Arts, 1996)

Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine, Tori Hudson, N.D., (Los Angeles: Keats Publishing, 1999)

The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet, Dr. Bob Arnot, (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1998)

8 Weeks to Optimum Health: A Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body's Natural Healing Power, Andrew Weil, M.D.

Before the Change, Taking Charge of Your Perimenopause, Ann Gittleman, M.S., C.N.S.

Menopausal Years: The Wise Woman Way, Alternative Approaches for Women 30-90, Susan B. Weed

The Wisdom of Menopause, Christiane Northrup, M.D.

The Fountain of Age, Betty Friedan

The Silent Passage: Menopause, Gail Sheehy

This is Not Your Mother's Menopause, One Woman's Journey Through Change, Trisha Posner

Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom, Christiane Northrup, M.D.


Websites

www.nlm.nih.gov (U.S. National Library of Medicine)

www.menopause.org (The North American Menopause Society)

www.menopause-online.com

www.medscape.com

www.immunesupport.com (Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Resource)

www.flaxcouncil.ca (Flax Council of Canada)

www.soyfoods.org (Soyfoods Association of North America )

www.soyfoods.com

FOOTNOTES

Managing Menopause

  1. The Boston Globe, February 15, 2000. www.boston.com
  2. "Menopausal Hormone Replacement Therapy", National Cancer Institute, www.jncicancerspectrum.oupjournals.org
  3. Willet MD DrPH, Walter; Colditz MD DrPH, Graham; Stampfer MD DrPH, Meir. "Postmenopausal Estrogens – Opposed, Unopposed, or None of the Above" in Journal of American Medical Association, Vol 283(4), January 26, 2000, www.jama.com.

The Role of Estrogens and Phytoestrogens

  1. Love, Susan and Lindsey, Karen.  Dr. Susan Love’s Hormone Book, (New York, NY: Times Brooks, 1998), pp. 156.
  2. Harvard Women’s Health Watch "Phytoestrogens", November 1999, p. 4. and Cerrato Paul L. MA, "Can Plant Estrogens Help Fight Cancer?" in RN, Vol. 61(10). Oct. 1998, pp. 59-60.
  3. Albertazzi P., Pansini F., Bonaccorsi G., Zanotti L., Forini E. De Aloysio D., "The Effect of Dietary Soy Supplementation on Hot Flushes" in Obstetrics & Gynecology, Vol. 91(1). Jan. 1998, pp. 6-11.
  4. Cassidy A., "Physiological Effects of phyto-estrogens in relation to cancer and other human health risks" in Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, Vol. 55(1B). 1996, pp. 399-417.
  5. Tham D.M., Gardner C.D., Haskell W.L., "Potential Health Benefits of Dietary Phytoestrogens: A Review of the Clinical, Epidemiological, and Mechanistic Evidence" in Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Vol. 83(7). 1998, pp. 2223-2235.

What is Flaxseed?

  1. Nina Shandler, Estrogen The Natural Way, pp. 36. And Tham D M, Gardner C D, Haskell W L, "Potential health benefits of dietary phytoestrogens: A review of the clinical, epidemiological, and mechanistic evidence" in Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism Vol. 83(7). 1998, pp. 2223-2235. Ovid Citation 3.
  2. Erasmus, Udo. Fats that Heal and Fats that Kill, (Burnaby BC, Canada: Alive Books, 1993), 281.
  3. Weed, Susan. Menopausal Way: Wise Woman Way. (Woodstock, New York: Ash Tree Publishing, 1992), 43.
  4. Nina Shandler, Estrogen The Natural Way, pp. xxix. And Tham D M, Gardner C D, Haskell W L, "Potential health benefits of dietary phytoestrogens: A review of the clinical, epidemiological, and mechanistic evidence" in Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism Vol. 83(7). 1998, pp. 2223-2235. Ovid Citation 3.
  5. Nina Shandler, Estrogen The Natural Way, pp. xxv. And Tham D M, Gardner C D, Haskell W L, "Potential health benefits of dietary phytoestrogens: A review of the clinical, epidemiological, and mechanistic evidence" in Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism Vol. 83(7).1998, pp. 2223-2235. Ovid Citation 3.
  6. Hudson, M.D., Tori. Women's Enclyclopedia of Natural Medicine, (Los Angeles, CA: Keats Publishing, 1999), p.6.

Flaxseed Products and Forms

  1. Tham D M, Gardner C D, Haskell W L, "Potential health benefits of dietary phytoestrogens: A review of the clinical, epidemilogical, and mechanistic evidence" in Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Vol. 83(7). 1998, pp. 2223-2235. Ovid Citation 3.
  2. Arnot, Bob. The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet, (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1998), pp 34.
  3. Love, Susan and Lindsey, Karen. Dr. Susan Love’s Hormone Book, (New York, NY: Times Brooks, 1998), 200.

What is Soy?

  1. Food and Drug Administration, "FDA Approves New Health Claims for Soy Protein and Coronary Heart Disease." FDA Talk Paper, October 26, 1999.

What are Phytoestrogens?

  1. Tuft’s University Health and Nutrition Letter, November 1999, 4.

What are Isoflavones?

  1. Tham D.M., Gardner C.D., Haskell W.L., "Potential Health Benefits of Dietary Phytoestrogens: A Review of the Clinical, Epidemiological, and Mechanistic Evidence" in Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Vol. 83(7). 1998, pp. 2223-2235.
  2. Cunnane S C, Hamadeh M J, Liede A C, Thompson L U, Wolever T M S, Jenkins D J A, "Nutritional attributes of traditional flaxseed in healthy young adults" in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 61(1). 1995. Pp. 62-68.
  3. Love, Susan and Lindsey, Karen. Dr. Susan Love’s Hormone Book, (New York, NY: Times Brooks, 1998), 111-112.
  4. Christiane Northrup, M.D. quoted from Karolyn A. Gazella, "Menopause: Natural Alternatives to Conventional Estrogen" in Nature’s Impact Magazine. 114.

Flaxseed & Soy Effects on Menopause

  1. Begley, Sharon. "Understanding Perimenopause." Newsweek Special Edition, Spring & Summer 1999, 31.
  2. Love, Susan and Lindsey, Karen. Dr. Susan Love’s Hormone Book, (New York, NY: Times Brooks, 1998), 111-112.
  3. Erasmus, Udo. Fats that Heal and Fats that Kill, (Burnaby BC, Canada: Alive Books, 1993), 283.
  4. Nina Shandler, Estrogen The Natural Way, pp. xxii. And Tham D M, Gardner C D, Haskell W L, "Potential health benefits of dietary phytoestrogens: A review of the clinical, epidemiological, and mechanistic evidence" in Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism Vol. 83(7). 1998, pp. 2223-2235. Ovid Citation 3.
  5. Tuft’s University Health and Nutrition Letter, November 1999, 4.
  6. Love, Susan and Lindsey, Karen. Dr. Susan Love’s Hormone Book, (New York, NY: Times Brooks, 1998), 56.
  7. Tuft’s University Health and Nutrition Letter, November 1999, 4.
  8. Clarkson T B, Anthony M S, Williams J K, Honore E K, Cline J M, "The potential of soybean phytoestrogens for postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy" in Proceeding of The Society for Experimental Biology & Medicine, Vol. 217(3). 1998, pp. 365-368. Ovid Citation 15.

Flaxseed & Soy:  Effects on Heart Health

  1. Begley, Sharon. "Understanding Perimenopause." Newsweek Special Edition, Spring & Summer 1999, 31.
  2. Cunnane S C, Hamadeh M J, Liede A C, Thompson L U, Wolever T M S, Jenkins D J A, "Nutritional attributes of traditional flaxseed in healthy young adults" in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 61(1). 1995. Pp. 62-68.
  3. Aldercreutz H. Scandinavian Journal Clinical Lab Investigation. 1990; Vol. 50 (Suppl 201):3-23 from www.flaxcouncil.ca
  4. Aldercreutz H. Scandinavian Journal Clinical Lab Investigation. 1990; Vol. 50 (Suppl 201):3-23 from www.flaxcouncil.ca
  5. Tuft’s University Health and Nutrition Letter, November 1999, 4.
  6. Food and Drug Administration, "FDA Approves New Health Claims for Soy Protein and Coronary Heart Disease." FDA Talk Paper, October 26, 1999.
  7. Thompson L U, Seidl M M, Richard S E, Orcheson L J, Fong H H S, "Antitumorigenic effect of a mammalian lignan precursor from flaxseed" in Nutrition and Cancer, Vol. 26(2). 1996, pp. 159-165. Ovid Citation 2.
  8. Rose DP. Annual Review of Public Health. 1993; Vol. 14: 1-7 from www.flaxcouncil.ca
  9. Arnot, Bob. The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet, (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1998), 114.