Lifestyles
Hormones Can Help
Menopause Problems
By Janet Pierce Frye
Duke University Medical Center
Treatment with estrogen and/or
progestin can alleviate most of the
symptoms associated with
menopause, according to a
gynecologist at Duke University
Medical Center.
Dr. Charles Hammond, pro
fessor and chairman of the Depart
ment of Obstetrics and
Gynecology, said that symptoms
of menopause such as hot flushes,
thinning and irritation of the
vaginal wall and bone loss can be
helped by estrogen replacement
therapy.
This is good news for women to
day who can expect to live one
third of their lives after
menopause, he added. He said
about 75 percent of women go
through menopause without
significant problems.
Menopause is defined as the
physiological ceasing of menses,
and the mean age for menopause
to occur is approximately 50 years
of age. It is considered premature
if it occurs prior to age 40 and late
if it occurs after age 55.
Symptoms relating to
menopause are caused by a
decrease in estrogen production.
During the gradual decline of
ovarian function, women may
move in and out of symptoms of
menopause for three to five years,
Hammond said. To avoid
pregnancy during this time, Ham
mond recommended that women
continue to use contraceptive
measures for two years after their
last menstrual cycle.
Hot flushes occur in almost all
menopausal women, he said,
usually during the transition
period, but may continue longer.
They may occur only rarely in
some women and as often as once
every hour in others. It may be a
brief sensation or last several
minutes.
Approximately haJf of all post
Health Hints
menopausal women develop thinn
ing, drying and irritation of the
vaginal wall, and sometimes the
bladder, which can lead to pro
blems with frequent urination.
Topical estrogen creams or oral
estrogen tablets can alleviate these
symptoms, Hammond added.
Osteoporosis is a decrease in the
quantity of structural bony
material in the body and affects
approximately 25 percent of post
menopausal women, he said. The
decrease in bone mass produces no
obvious symptoms, but results in
bone fragility.
By age 65, women with
osteoporosis usually have spinal
fractures, which eventually shorten
their height, Hammond said. The
decrease in bone density begins
around age 50 in both sexes but is
much more rapid in women than in
men.
Preventive measures include
calcium supplements, physical ex
ercise, vitamin D and flouride sup
plements, but none are as effective
as estrogen, he said, adding that
studies have shown that women
taking estrogen do not lose bone
density.
"I have great trouble recom
mending that every woman in the
United States be put on estrogen,"
Hammond said, "but I also have
trouble seeing 50,000 women die
each year from complications
related to hip fractures."
The disadvantage related to
estrogen-replacement therapy in
clude a higher risk of cancer of the
lining of the uterus, he said,
although new data suggest that ad
ding progestin to estrogen treat
ment can reduce that risk
significantly.
"Each patient should consult
her physician, weigh and risks and
benefits of estrogen therapy and
make her own decision based on
informed consent," Hammond
said.
Pope Pilots Flying Low Level Missions
The Military Airlift Command's
transport aircraft are currently fly
ing low level training routes near
Raeford.
These routes have been flown on
a continuing basis for more than
20 years.
C-130 Hercules and C-I41A
Starlifters conduct these training
operations in order to maintain
readiness for deployment all over
the world for contingency and
humanitarian missions.
In developing the low level
routes. Air Force planners make
every effort to avoid overflight of
populated areas, wildlife refuges,
power plants, airfields, hospitals,
school and historical sites.
Complaints concerning low fly
ing transport aircraft should be
sent, in detail, to: Airspace
Manager, 317 TAW/DOXT, Pope
AFB. N.C. 28308.
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Members attend 4-H electric congress
Hoke County 4-H members Randall Wheeler, (left) Rt. I, Raeford, and
Patrick Miller, (center) Rt. 4, Raeford, were delegates to the State 4-H
Electric Congress at Chowan College in Murfreesboro, July 11-13. Ted
Cooper, Carolina Power and Light Company customer service represen
tative, (right) accompanied the delegates. The 4-H'ers were selected for
achievement in their electrical projects. Carolina Power and Light com
pany sponsored their trip. The congress was conducted by the North
Carolina Agricultural Extension Service.
Hoke Agricultural
Extension News
by Willie Featherstone, Jr.
Agricultural Extension Agent
AUTOMATIC BANK TELLERS
Automatic bank tellers can be a
lifesaver for you on weekends and
after banking hours. But they can
also be a lifesaver to the clever
criminal. So you'll want to protect
your transactions at the automatic
teller as carefully as you'd protect
your credit cards and wallet.
Here are some suggestions: Be
leery of anyone who wants your
help because quote "a machine is
broken." Next, never let anyone
else borrow , use or even hold your
card. And never use your personal
identification code in such a way
that someone else can see it.
In fact, don't write your code
down -- memorize it instead.
Another reminder: Never walk
away from a cash machine without
either completing or canceling
your transaction.
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EE BONDS
If you haven't bought savings
bonds for a while, you might want
to take a look at double E bonds.
They're quite different from the
old series E bonds they replaced.
For one thing, double E bonds
earn a variable rate of interest. Old
bonds had a fixed rate. And dou
ble E bonds are discounted fifty
percent when you buy them. Older
bonds were discounted twenty-five
percent.
Double E bonds mature in ten
years. But they will automatically
shift into an extension period if
you want to postpone tax liability
and earn additional interest.
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THEFT CLAIM
Having the right insurance to
cover a loss is important. But
knowing what to do in case of a
loss is also important.
If burglars have ransacked your
house, call the police first. Keep a
record of the investigating officer's
name and the time and date you
called. Provide a complete list and
description of the stolen items, be
ing sure to include serial and model
numbers and any special marking
you may have placed on the items.
Next, call your insurance agent
and inform him of the theft and of
your claim. Follow up your phone
call by writing the company
through your agent, notifying
them of your loss and including a
copy of the police report, plus an
itemized list of the stolen property
giving dates of purchase, purchase
price and replacement cost.
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Home Economics Extension
More and more research is being
done on processing times that were
established in the 40's and SO's so
we can expect to see changes in our
canning time tables. Following are
some changes you need to make in
your canning book. Even if you
receive a book this year with cor
rections you will need these correc
tions:
(Clip and Make all these
Changes in Your Canning Books)
Based on current research fin
dings, the U.S. Department of
Agriculture has revised the pro
cessing times for tomatoes, ap
plesauce and fruit purees. Strained
pumpkin or winter squash has
been deleted and only cubed
pumpkin or winter squash should
be canned. To ensure a safe home
canned product, change the pro
cessing times for these foods to the
following:
MINUTES IN
FOOD BOILING
WATER BATH
Pints Quarts
Tomatoes (Raw
Pack & Hot Pack) 35 45
Tomato Juice
(Hot Pack Only) 35 35
Applesauce
(Hot Pack Only) 20 20
Fruit Purees
(Hot Pack Only) 20 20
PRESSURE CAN AT
TEN POUNDS PRESSURE
Cubed Pumpkin or
Winter Squash Pints Quarts
(Hot Pack Only) 55 90
1 want to talk about Aspartame
the chemical name for a low
calorie sweetner. NutraSweet is the
brand of aspartame distributed by
the G.D. Searle and Company.
Equal is the product name for
aspartame tablets and power
available on the market. Aspar
tame is made from two amino
acids ? L-aspartic acid and
L-phenylalanine. When these two
amino acids are linked they form a
sweet tasting substance. The
sweetness is about 200 times
sweeter than sugar so a very small
amount is used -- thus very few
calories to sweeten a food. Like all
other proteins, aspartame contains
4 calories per gram. One tablet of
aspartame (Equal) has the sweeten
ing power of 1 teaspoon of sugar at
only 0.4 calories per tablet. Aspar
tame is being used in powdered I
drink mixes; cereal coatings; dry
mixes for desserts, toppings and
gelatins, chewing gum, tabletop
sweeteners and instant coffees and
teas and other products. In the
home Equal can be used to sweeten
beverages, fruits (fresh or after
they are cooked), mousses, pud
dings, gelatins or other chilled-type
desserts, ice cream, sherbet and
other frozen desserts and cereals. I
It cannot be used in baking
because it breaks down upon
heating and loses its sweetening
power. Also it doesn't provide the
bulk and necessary structure for
cakes, cookies and sweet doughs.
Food Preservation. High heat
needed for home canning may
cause Equal to lose its sweetness,
but jams, jellies and preserves can
be made by the Freezer Method for ?
freezer storage is sweetened with
Equal after cooking. Remember
sugar is the preserving agent in
these products so if a sugar
substitute is used the product must
be refrigerated or frozen. Also
sugar is important in the gelling of
these products. If a sugar
substitute is used you need to make
the product with Slim Set, a com
mercial product to be used in mak- $
ing jellies and jams without sugar,
or use gelatin (recipes in Ball Blue
Book in Chapter on Special Diet).
Equal can be dissolved in water
and used as a low calorie syrup for
freezing fruits or it can be added
later at serving time. Aspartame
containing foods carry a label that
warns people with PKU,
phenylketonuria, that the food
contains phenylalanine.
LEMON FROST PIE
WITH BLUEBERRY SAUCE
(Recipe from Tarheel
Tastes Cookbook
(Mrs. Jean Wright)
Crust:
1 cup sifted all-purpose flour
1/2 cup butter or margarine
softened
2 tablespoons sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt |
Mix all of the above ingredients
until crumbly. Press into a greased
and floured 9-inch pie plate. Bake
in a 375 degree oven for 12 to 15
minutes; cool.
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