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Health Blog - thebroadroom.net: October 2006
Disclaimer: all of the following is purely from personal experience. We are not doctors, nurses, or otherwise trained
medical personnel.
Why suffer from PMS?
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
Thursday, October 05, 2006
at 5:27 PM (Pacific)
Dang if this stuff doesn't work. I've been taking a calcium supplement regularly...not twice per day as I'm supposed to, but almost every day at least...and I do feel better. Much, much better.
I missed the webmd article on this last time: Relief for PMS. This includes not only calcium and magnesium, but some reference to vitamin B6 and vitamin E.
I'm less enthusiastic about the herbs, if only because my HMO told me that agnus castus (chaste tree berry) could interfere with hormone-based birth control. (I had looked into it previously as a potential acne treatment.)
So, try the calcium supplement!!!!! You have nothing to lose, calcium is good for you anyway, it's cheap and readily available, yadda yadda...
 
So, what happened to Atkins?
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
at 4:34 PM (Pacific)
I've been link-checking our Women Bloggers page over the past few days...there's no way to do that automatically of course, since many blogs are still up but haven't been updated in years, while many have been forwarded and are still current.
Anyhow I stumbled across a reference to the Atkins diet, circa 2004 (sabrinaspeak) and I got to feeling slightly nostalgic. Have people really become slimmer since the advent--or revival, rather--of this miracle diet?
I don't mean slackers like myself, who played around with "low carb" (I did try it out, albeit it meant a few months of eating less noodles and more sauce). I mean the people who actually bothered reading the material and following the directions.
On a side note, I'm old enough to remember the first time Atkins rolled around in the 70's. It was widely regarded as a joke because of the high fat. The sudden acceptance of the diet as legitimate...was reminiscent to me of Woody Allen in Sleeper, awakening in the future to be told that smoking is good for you.
I'm glad we kept that Women Bloggers page...
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