Menopause & Peri-Menopause: Managing Hot Flashes with Medication & Natural Remedies
The Cato Institute’s Sallie James had an eye-popping post on Cato’s Liberty blog.
Well, here’s an interesting, if three-weeks-old, story. Apparently the North Dakota Farm Bureau’s annual convention recently passed a policy calling for the elimination of all agricultural programs. Reading between the lines of the original press release indicates that the call was part of a broad political stance taken by the NDFB to move away from government intervention in many areas of the economy, apart from farm programs, including cap-and-trade and health care:
Reading between the lines or not, the first line of the release clearly states:
In a vote for less government intrusion in our lives, delegates to the North Dakota Farm Bureau annual convention passed policy stating that all government agricultural program payments should be eliminated [EWG emphasis].
Ruh-roh. I wonder what the National Farm Bureau mothership thinks about a member organization in a big agriculture state denouncing billions in farm subsidies. One of the NFB’s primary missions is to passionately defend the payments that are concentrated in the hands of largest and wealthiest farm operations. North Dakota ranks 8th in the nation in total taxpayer funded subsidies received, raking in $8.34 billion in subsidies from 1995-2008, and $484,307,998 in 2008 alone.
SEOUL (AP) – North Korea demanded to a senior US envoy that UN sanctions imposed on the communist regime for its nuclear defiance be lifted, a report said Wednesday.
North Korean officials made the request to Stephen Bosworth, President Barack Obama's envoy on North Korea, during the diplomat's trip to Pyongyang last week for high-level talks, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported, citing an unidentified diplomatic source.
South Korean officials in charge of nuclear negotiations were not immediately available for comment.
Bosworth went to North Korea to try persuading the regime to return to disarmament talks also involving South Korea, Russia, China and Japan. He said North Korea agreed on the need to resume the talks but did not make a firm commitment on when it would rejoin the negotiations.
The process had yielded pacts promising North Korea much-needed aid and other concessions in return for step-by-step disarmament. However, Pyongyang walked away from the talks this year in anger over UN Security Council condemnation of a rocket launch widely seen as a test of its long-range missile technology.
The UN Security Council tightened sanctions in June after North Korea conducted an underground nuclear test, its second, in defiance of an earlier ban. The sanctions, aimed at derailing North Korea's nuclear weapons program, ban the country from developing its nuclear program and selling conventional arms.
The North's reported demand comes as Thai authorities are inspecting 35 tons of weapons seized from a cargo plane loaded in North Korea — the latest known case of Pyongyang's illicit weapons trade in violation of UN sanctions.
Thai officials impounded the Ilyushin IL-76 transport plane Saturday after authorities discovered explosives, rocket-propelled grenades and components for surface-to-air missiles.
North Korea is believed to earn hundreds of millions of dollars every year by selling missiles, missile parts and other weapons to countries such as Iran, Syria and Myanmar.
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For women who are stepping into the realm of menopause, there are many complications that may come suddenly and without warning. From the development of amenorrhea to the affects on mood and even sleep disturbances, women who are entering the menopause phase of life often feel great distress over this change.
One key negative factor of menopause, in the opinion of most women, is the development of hot flashes. Because menopause brings many complicating symptoms, women are often solely dependent upon their healthcare professional to make the right recommendations for their particular needs.
With many studies pointing to complications associated with hormone replacement therapy (HRT), women of menopausal age are increasingly concerned over the long term implications for using such treatment. With estrogen and progesterone therapy highly questionable in terms of developments in some forms of cancer, menopausal women are hoping for a change to more non-hormonal treatment options.
If you are entering the phase of menopause, or have passed through menopause, and you struggle with the decision to use hormone replacement therapy to manage symptoms such as menopause, consider your alternatives first. In many cases, when living with hot flashes, women have found that using a combination of SSRIs, with venlafaxine, hot flashes are significantly reduced by as much as 60 percent.
While there is controversy over the effectiveness of herbal and all-natural remedies, many menopausal women are opting for herbal remedies as a way to complement traditional medicine. For hot flashes, menopausal women are utilizing black cohosh, ginseng and even vitamin E with much success.
When considering your treatment options for menopausal symptoms, such as hot flashes, it is important to be mindful that resolution of the symptoms will not occur immediately. Whether using prescription medications, all-natural or herbal supplements, the resolution of menopausal complications, such as hot flashes, may take as long as 12 weeks to be realized.
As with any form of non-hormonal based therapy, the key to the management of your menopausal symptoms lies in the careful combination of medications and supplements, with compliance to dosing and plenty of patience to allow the remedies many weeks to begin effectively working. When living with hot flashes, you are probably quite familiar with the distress this menopausal complication, alone, can have upon your life. Working to resolve the hot flashes, without hormone replacement therapy (HRT), can provide for an equally effective resolution without the risks for other forms of menopausal complications.
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