January/February 2002
Feature Articles
What's Newz?
by Dee J. Findlay
Holistic Health Q & A
by John DeCosmo, D.O.
Of September 11, stress, getting back
to basics, and God is in the details.
What are... Sweeteners?
by Robert Roman
Not all sweeteners are "equal."
A healthfood store manager guides us through some of the options.
EnergyUpDate
by David Findlay
UNCOMMON SENSE ! - Who's next?
David Findlay
Minerals from Mother Earth
by Judy Power
Featured stones for January and February:
Onyx and Opal.
Your Astro Guide
by Janet Sciales
Articles on the theme "Freedom"
Freedom From Fear
by Kelly Menges
Freeing ourselves from limiting beliefs
to become connected with our true nature.
No Limits
by Yvette Monet
The freedom to live life as an expression
of love.
Spiritual Freedom
by Rev. Pat Cross
The inner freedom that comes with
the recognition of our divine nature.
Psychological Freedom
by Patrick Plaskett
Increasing our freedom by changing
the reality in our minds.
Hormonal Freedom
by Lela Lilyquist
Of the harmful effects of synthetic
hormone treatment for menopause and the growing awareness of more natural
approaches.
Free To Create
by Ken Sutton
The freedom to create our own lives...
both the good and the bad.
Freedom Within Bounds
by Rev. Stephanie Kubilius
How the boundaries of a relationship,
such as marriage, can actually provide greater freedom to grow.
Seven Basic Freedoms
by Rev. Linda Lou Kearns
Seven ways to exercise our freedom
to become what we really are.
A Free Mind
by Charles Larsen
How we as individuals may restrict
our inner freedom.
The Age of Freedom
by Jan Carter
Of plants and asteroids, gods and goddesses.
The Freedom Solution
by Constance Joy Angeles, Esq.
A nine-step approach to freedom
Hormonal Freedom
Lela Liliquist
My mission is to educate women about the various roles menopause takes in their lives, help them survive menopause, and know that they have choices and the freedom to choose.
I have to confess I don't buy the bill of goods we are sold as women. As purchasing consumers of the United States, we carry a lot of weight sometimes literally! Either way, we have tremendous power. Somehow along the way the pharmaceutical companies also labeled us "cash cows." We women collectively support the number-two prescribed drug in America: Premarin also known as pregnant mare's urine.
How did we get to this?
In the mid-sixties there was an obstetrician/gynecologist in New York who wrote Feminine Forever. The book was well advertised and sold over 100,000 copies. It promoted the use of synthetic hormones for menopause to prevent women's ovaries from shriveling up and dying. This doctor also pushed a fountain of youth anecdote. A very forward thinking pharmaceutical company decided to establish a trust fund and began the widespread marketing of this "miracle for women."
With the Women's Movement we saw widespread use of hormones in birth-control pills. As we marched off to work and listened to our doctors, we gave up breastfeeding and the nurturing of our children in lieu of daycare and strangers raising them. We accepted what we were told as fact: that formulas were providing babies with all the nutrients they would need. (Now we know this is not the case, especially as the new psychological diagnosis of Attention Deficit Disorder is firmly established, with more than 8 million children so labeled.) Around the same time we were as women coming to the conclusion of a horrific experiment, DES (Diethylstilbestrol), which was given to millions of women to prevent miscarriage. The effects of DES are still with us our babies were born missing limbs, adult victims of DES were infertile and had a predisposition to breast cancer and testicular cancer.
Thirty years later the spotlight is finally being placed on the atrocities to women around the world from South Africa and the clipping of the clitoris, to China and the abandonment of female babies due to a masculine-dominated culture, to Mrs. Bush's radio address identifying and naming the vicious brutality of treatment of the women of Afghanistan. (Thank you Mrs. Bush!)
Yet there are still atrocities affecting American women! For example: 850,000 hysterectomies performed when only 10% are medically necessary; the impact on women of heart disease while taking hormone replacement therapy; and of course the increased risk of breast cancer in women for whom hormone replacement therapy has been prescribed.
40-50 million women is no longer a minority we are a huge segment of this country. We are all family trying to make the right decisions without the need to be subjected to antidepressants, synthetic hormones, and doctors who are not educated on the Women's Health Initiative. We want to be treated with compassion and respect. Let us appreciate The Wisdom of Menopause (the title of Chistiane Northup's book).
I welcome Dr. John R. Lee to the Tampa Bay area and look forward to reading his new book What Your Doctor May NOT Tell You About Breast Cancer. I am also very proud to have helped physicians in my area embrace the ideas and clinical research Dr. Lee has so passionately shared with us.
Lela Lilyquist is owner of Nature's Health Foods, Inc. in Brandon, FL. (813) 681-2444.
Footnote: (by Abby Sayler, nutritional consultant and owner of Abby's health food store in Tampa 813-265-4931.)
An appeal to women of all ages:
Each of you has the freedom to choose natural alternatives over pharmaceuticals when it comes to your health. In order to make the best possible choices, however, you must become knowledgeable. Freedom demands responsibility.
As an owner of a health and nutrition establishment, I am not only constantly confronted with pre-, peri-, and post-menopausal women, but also very young women who have little understanding of their own bodies. They stand before me distraught, confused, fearful, nervous, sad, and often in emotional turmoil. This sometimes occurs after an appointment with their gynecologist!
These women need information. Information that is readily available in books such as, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause by Dr. John Lee, Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom by Christiane Northrup, and many others. We also provide free seminars as well as one-on-one consultations.
Please become informed. Armed with knowledge, you are free to make educated
choices, leaving behind fear, confusion and danger.
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