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Estrogen: The Natural Way: Over 250 Easy and Delicious Recipes for Menopause
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 618.1750654
EAN: 9780375751417
Edition: 1st Pbk. Ed
ISBN: 0375751416
Label: Villard
Manufacturer: Villard
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 300
Publication Date: April 28, 1998
Publisher: Villard
Release Date: April 28, 1998
Studio: Villard
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Editorial Review:
Estrogen: The Natural Way is a cookbook with a difference: every recipe is high in plant estrogens, which can relieve menopausal discomforts such as hot flashes, sweats, and sleep disturbance. Plant estrogens may protect against heart disease and osteoporosis--without the increased risk of breast cancer. In fact, they may protect against cancer, say author Nina Shandler and her endorsing team of physicians. Shandler tells her story of menopausal distress ("I felt like a middle-aged bed wetter") and her reactions to hormone replacement therapy (nausea, headache, rage against males). Her quest for other solutions led her to plant estrogens. She offers rich information in a simple, accessible style; she's like an educated friend reporting back after library trips and personal revelations.
The winners among estrogen-rich foods are soy and flaxseed. Shandler uses soy to create creamy foods that taste decadent despite their low calorie count. She adds ground flaxseeds to recipes for a crunchy texture. The 250 recipes in Estrogen: The Natural Way are a tasty array of breakfasts, breads, soups, snack bars, salads, pastas, entrees, and desserts, most of which are quick and easy to prepare. Menopausal women seeking the benefits of estrogen without drugs will find this book a practical and pleasant solution. --Joan Price
Women need estrogen, but estrogen levels diminish with age. In the short term, estrogen's departure leaves most women in a frequently overheated, uncomfortable state. In the long term, its exodus places their hearts, bones, and brains in harm's way. And conventional hormone replacement therapy, with its potentially distressing side effects and increased risk of breast cancer, doesn't provide a reassuring rescue. Faced with every menopausal woman's frightening estrogen dilemma, Nina Shandler discovered exciting news: Some foods contain estrogen. She headed straight for the kitchen and created this easy-to-swallow alternative. Part eating program, part cookbook, Estrogen: The Nat-ural Way shows women how to make fast, fun food using nature's estrogenic ingredients. From breakfast bars to soups, from main courses to desserts, Estrogen: The Natural Way provides a gentle yet effective version of estrogen replacement therapy.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Use Tofu in Familiar Recipes
I have been using this cookbook for over 5 years. It's great! Most of the recipes are easy. The nice thing about it is that it incorporates tofu into receipes that are familiarto you and your family: soups, crepes, smoothies, main dishes, cheesecake, puddings, etc. You don't have to buy odd ingredients that you would need to prepare tofu in a Japanese or Chinese style. It stimulated me to think of my own ways to add tofu and soy products to my diet. And the estrogenic ingredients really worked ... Read More
Rating:  - Good infomation, great recipes! Watch out for Garlic!
This book is well worth buying. The information is very valuable to any women who wants to experience an important natural transitional stage of life in a very healthy supportive way. I found the recipes to be very tasty. There is something I would caution you about the recipes though, in Chinese medicine peri-menopausal and menopausal women are considered to have an excessive yang or heat condition (known as hot flashes). I would recommend limiting the use of garlic or leaving garlic out (which ... Read More
Rating:  - FOR EDITH DesMarais AND Anyone else wishing to read this
I read your review with interest. I had not tried the recipes in the book. I wanted to. What REALLY turned me off was that EVERYTHING is loaded with sugar and sweeteners. ANYTHING will be palatable if you sweeten it. The recipes are just so bad with all the added sweeteners.
At one point the author mentions her husband and daughter love the stuff she made. No wonder. It's like candy!
I can't believe the author actually eats like this. Forget menopause. What about the damage from ... Read More
Rating: - Warning regarding over dose of flax seed
I was very enthusiastic regarding this book. The recipes were very well done and I did find great relief from menopausal symptoms. However, while traveling I relied on several "portable" flax seed foods for my daily "portions" for estrogen. Shortly thereafter, I was found to have a very irregular heart beat. I have no history of heart problems and, in fact, am an athlete. Research into flax seed showed that more than 2 ounces or 60 grams a day should not be taken internally. ... Read More
Rating:  - Well....
The information in this book is very good, and that's why I keep it around. I found the recipes hugely lacking, and since this book is billed primarily as a cookbook, that's primarily how I should rate it. The author claims desserts are her specialty. I tried seven, and only one (lemon lace cookies) didn't strike me as needing serious tinkering before I would serve it again. Several I wouldn't even bother with a second time. I found it frustrating that the author didn't describe her more unusual ... Read More
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