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The Vitamin Women Over 50 Should Pay Attention to

Barbara Hannah Grufferman | Posted 02.09.2013 | Fifty
Read More: Barbara Hannah Grufferman, Life After 50, Osteoporosis, Osteoporosis Prevention, Vitamin D, Calcium, Whi, Womens Health, Menopause, Strength Training, Women's Health Initiative, Cardiovascular Disease, Post Menopause Heart Disease, Women Over 50, Turning 50, Health After 50, Bone Health, National Osteoporosis Foundation, Women News, Fifty News, Health News, Video, Fifty News
Barbara Hannah Grufferman

Some great news was just released that is sure to make big believers in the power of vitamin D smile... and maybe just a little smug.

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Why I'm Choosing A Different Path For The Second Half Of Life

Kelley Connors | Posted 02.04.2013 | Fifty
Read More: Exercise After 50, Aging Gracefully, Women's Health Initiative, Working Out After 50, Longevity, Health Post50, Living Longer, Passages, Menopause, Getting Stronger, Working Out Over 50, Gail Sheehy, Fifty News
Kelley Connors

Along with tens of millions of my baby boomer friends, I have embarked on a new journey at a time in life when Madison Avenue uses all its muscle muscle to convince us women that 50 is the new 30 or 60 is the new 40.

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U.S. Panel Confirms Risks Of Hormone Replacement Therapy

Posted 10.23.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Hormone-Replacement-Therapy-Menopause, Women's Health Initiative, Hormone Replacement Therapy, Hrt, Menopause and Hormones, Postmenopausal Women, Risks of Hormone Replacement Therapy, Menopause, Fifty News

A U.S. task force is once again recommending postmenopausal women avoid hormone replacement therapy (HRT) -- roughly a decade after its original findi...

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Hormone Therapy, Finally the Experts Agree

Staness Jonekos | Posted 11.18.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Vascular Risks, North American Menopause Society, Women's Health Initiative, Margery Gass, Hormone Therapy, Breast Cancer Risk, Healthy Living News
Staness Jonekos

Finally, 15 top medical organizations have come together to issue a statement of agreement regarding the benefits of hormone therapy for symptomatic menopausal women.

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Menopause and Estrogen: The Women's Health Initiative (WHI) 10 Years Later

Mache Seibel, MD | Posted 08.25.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Estrogen, Menopause Symptoms, Osteoporosis, Hrt, Menopause, Women's Health Initiative, Breast Cancer, Hormone Replacement, Women's Health, Hormone Therapy, Menopause Hormone Therapy, Hormone Replacement Therapy, Healthy Living News
Mache Seibel, MD

It's been 10 years since one of the most significant papers in women's health was published -- a study on the risks and benefits of estrogen plus progestin in healthy postmenopausal women.

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Fifty Shades of Menopause

Ellen Dolgen | Posted 08.14.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Fifty Shades of Grey, Menopause Specialist, Perimenopause, Fifty Shades of Grey Movie, Fantasy, Menopause, Women's Health Initiative, Women's Health, Women's Health Issues, Love-Sex, Fifty News
Ellen Dolgen

I was thrilled that I found hormone happiness prior to reading this book, because it would have been wasted on me. WOW...Fifty Shades of Grey turned me Fifty Shades of RED!

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Why Do Girls Drop Out Of School? It's All About What Happens In The Girls' Room

Susan Davis | Posted 05.07.2012 | Women
Read More: Women's Health Global Poverty, Women's Health Initiative, Girls' Education, International Development, Clean-Water, Clean Water, Girl's Health, Global Motherhood, Girls' Health, Water Sanitation, 2012 International Women's Day, Women's Education, Global Sanitation, Women News
Susan Davis

More people in the world now have a mobile phone than have a toilet. As we celebrate International Women's Day on March eighth, let's not forget that girls and women suffer the most from lack of sanitation.

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HRT Questioned Again -- Really?

Susan M. Love | Posted 04.08.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Women's Health Initiative, Menopause, Women's Health, Hrt, Hormone Replacement Therapy, Dr. Susan Love, Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation, Hormone Replacement, Hormone Therapy Menopause, Hrt Breast Cancer, Hormone Therapy, Hormone Therapy Cancer, Breast Cancer, Healthy Living News
Susan M. Love

Once again we are returning to the question of whether menopausal hormone replacement therapy (HRT) increases breast cancer risk.

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Is Sex Really Better After 50? The Results Are In

The Huffington Post | Evan Allis | Posted 12.14.2011 | Fifty
Read More: Sexual Activity, Women's Health Initiative, Estrogen, Women Over 50, Sexual Desire, lovepost50, Love Post50, Menopause, Fifty News

A new study from the Women’s Health Initiative has found that, contrary to popular belief, older women are generally satisfied with their sex lives ...

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Dueling Docs -- the Vitamin Wars

Janice Horowitz | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Exercise, Women's Health Initiative, Prostate Cancer, Nutrition, Vitamins, Women's Health, Men's Health, Vitamin C, Cancer, Heart Disease, Diet, Physician's Health Study, Vitamin E, Selenium, Healthy Diet, Pills, Whole Foods, Healthy Living News
Janice Horowitz

We now know that no vitamin has those powers to prevent disease. Most people are probably relieved to know that they don't have to spend that money on these vitamins anymore.

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