As the level of obesity has risen exponentially in the Western World so has the incidence of insulin resistance and type two diabetes. There appears to be a link between obesity and post menopausal women and breast cancer, but that link is hard to prove as the risk factors for both are similar, a sedentary lifestyle, a high intake of refined carbohydrates such as white sugar, white bread and white pasta and a high level of fats and obesity.
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Many of the symptoms of the menopause are the same as the symptoms for estrogen dominance.
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Men’s body fat and women’s body fat are different; it always seems easier for a man to shed weight than a woman. He has to stop drinking beer for a month, go out for a few walks after dinner and do a few hours a week on a cross trainer or rowing machine. Some women virtually starve themselves and eat just what their body needs to lose weight and they hang onto that fat for dear life.
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For many years women were told that Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) offered as Estrogen Therapy (ET) or a combination of Estrogen and Progesterone (Hormone Therapy or HT) was the easy way to avoid any symptoms of the menopause. Women were given either natural or synthetic hormones to reduce hot flashes, headaches, moodiness, insomnia, and vaginal dryness.
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The protective effects in one’s diet of particular fruits and vegetables that offers against cancer may intuitively seem to apply more to cancers that are related to the gastrointestinal tract, such as colon cancer, stomach cancer or intestinal cancer. On the other hand, for certain cancers, like those of the ovaries, prostate and breasts, one may be more inclined to believe that hormones play a bigger part.
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