Red Hot Mamas Do Menopause With Style

Menopause has been a topic of discussion for several years now, and a number of serious books have been published about it, starting with The Silent Passage by Gail Sheehy, and The Change by Germaine Greer. The menopause literature has been either personal and confessional, or medically oriented. There is a raging debate about Hormone Replacement Therapy, and numerous books have been published that offer natural alternatives for the various symptoms of menopause. Many hospitals and health centers now offer support groups for women in menopause. Into all this deadly seriousness, comes Red Hot Mamas Do Menopause with Style, which takes just as jaundiced an eye to yams and aromatherapy as it does to calcium patches and estrogen creams. The text is fast-paced and contains tables, quizzes, pie charts, graphs, timelines, lists, letters and even a section on the best menopause Web sites (real ones!). All the topics of menopause -- hair loss, diminished libido, incontinence, osteoporosis, mammograms, weight gain, insomnia, and hot flashes -- are made funny, and thereby a little more bearable.