HealthWeek, a highly popular, nationally syndicated health program produced by The Washington Post and aired by PBS, will feature HotFlash! founder Sue Spataro.  The show will begin airing the week of Friday January 29th through February 4 th.  It will also be carried by cable's The Health Network on their show Health Point.

Sue and HealthWeek reporter Kelly McHenry talk about soy supplements, perimenopause and Sue's online perimenopause/menopause support group HotFlash!. 

During this interview Sue talks about how important support and good information is for making solid health decisions during perimenopause and menopause .

In addition to talking about HotFlash! Sue and HealthWeek discusses the ups and downs of soy supplements, how to pick the right kind for you, and how they can be used effectively for perimenopause and menopause.  There is also a soy cooking segment which guarantees easy and tasteful ways to add soy to your diet !

Check our HotFlash's! listings of soy recipes.

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Sue's Soy Kitchen
Have you thought about soy?
Stop by our kitchen where we have prepared some tasty treats which are healthy too!
"Two soy beans up! - - Way up!"
- - Soybean Entertainment Weekly
""I can't believe I ate the whole thing!"
- - Soy & Tofu Times

Meet the Author
Larrian Gillespie, MD
Author of "The Menopause Diet"
FREE recipe
FREE book excerpt, "Female, Fat, and Forty
hosted by Sue Spataro, RN, BSN
Millions of women in perimenopause and menopause ask themselves in frustration, "Why am I gaining weight when I'm still eating the same amounts of food and continue my exercise program?" Her books work hand in hand for any woman in her forties who is trying to lose weight and feel great.  Dr. Gillespie recipe's are delicious and easy to prepare.  Her book The Menopause Diet is excellent and educates us to how our body actually works against us during perimenopause/menopause. Find out more.

newly revised for 2000!
Could It Be...Perimenopause?
by Steven R. Goldstein, Laurie Ashner

see the interview with Dr Goldstein
In clear, supportive prose, Goldstein offers no-baloney advice. "Today's perimenopausal women has neither the time nor the patience to go through four to fifteen years of symptoms without relief," he says. He fully delineates the roles of various hormones, how to determine if you're in perimenopause or not, as well as how to treat the various symptoms to gain control over your life.