Fat, fit, or famished? No clear answers from the Women's Health Initiative about diet and dieting for longstanding hot flashes

Menopause

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 956-958

  Reame, Nancy King ^a  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; ESTROGEN; LIPID; PLACEBO; PROGESTERONE; VITAMIN K GROUP;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; CALORIC INTAKE; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER SURVIVOR; CLIMACTERIUM; DIET; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; ETHNICITY; EXERCISE; FAT INTAKE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOLLOW UP; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; GRAIN; HEART DISEASE; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MOTIVATION; NIGHT SWEAT; OBESITY; OSTEOPOROSIS; OVARY CANCER; POSTMENOPAUSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REPRODUCTION; RISK FACTOR; SELF CARE; SELF MONITORING; SMOKING; SOCIAL INTERACTION; VASOMOTOR DISORDER; VEGETABLE; WEIGHT CHANGE; WEIGHT GAIN; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

DIET, REDUCING; FEMALE; HOT FLASHES; HUMANS; WEIGHT LOSS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84865752886     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: 15300374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/gme.0b013e318263859a     Document Type: Editorial

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