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Article: Managing menopause: how to curb hot flashes, bone loss, and other symptoms.
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- Nutrition Action Healthletter
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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In 1900, a woman born in the U.S. could expect to live to age 48. Today, she's more likely to reach age 80.
"Women are living one third of their lives after menopause," says Susan Hendrix of the Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit. So getting through the hot flashes and dealing with the increased risk of heart disease and bone and memory loss isn't just academic.
More than a million American women enter menopause each year in the prime of their lives. And research on preventing or curbing its symptoms is no longer considered an oddity.
"I started studying hot flashes more than 20 years ago, and when I told people what I was ...