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Press, USA, 1999 4. James-Enger, Kelly and Brown, Emma- Charlotte, "Which Pill Can Stop Your Period and Prevent Cancer?", She Magazine (Australia), April 2002, p. 107 5. ibid. 6. National Toxicology Program, "Report on Carcinogens", Tenth Edition, http://ntp-server.niehs.nih.gov 7. Website http://ntp-server.niehs.nih.gov/ htdocs/8_RoC/RAC/Norethisterone.html 8. Wilks, John, A Consumer's Guide to the Pill and Other Drugs, Freedom Publishing Company Pty Ltd, Australia, 1996, p. 16 9. Fertility and Sterility 1998;70:30-34 10. Naish, Francesca, Natural Fertility, Sally Milner Publications, Australia, 1996, p. 14 11. Thomas, D.B., "Oral contraceptives and breast cancer", Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1993;85:359-64 12. Olson, H. et al., "Proliferation and DNZ ploidy in malignant breast tumors in relation to early oral contraceptive use and early abortions", Cancer 1991;67:1285-90 13. Wilks, John, ibid., p. 59 14. Kass-Wolff, J. H., "Bone loss in adolescents using Depo-Provera", J Soc Pediatr Nurs 2001 Jan—Mar;6(1):21-31 15. Contraception 1998 Jul;57:231-235. 16. Spartos, Carla, "Sarafem Nation", The Village Voice, December 6-10, 2000 17. Brandes L.J., Arron R.J., Bogdanovic R-P., Tong J., Zsaborniak C.L.F., Hogg G.R., Warrington R., Fang W., La Bella F.S., "Stimulation of malignant growth in rodents by antidepressent drugs at clinically relevant doses", Cancer Res 1992;52(13):3796-3800 18. New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 342, June 29, 2000, p. 2003 19. Thompson, T., "The Wizard of Prozac", Washington Post, November 11, 1993 20. Am J Epidemiology 2000 May15;151(10); 951-57 21. See http://www.mercola.com/2000/apr9/ prozac_backlash.htm 22. Garnett, Leah R., "Prozac Revisited", Boston Globe, July 5, 2000 23. ibid. 24, Rappaport, John, "School Violence: The Psychiatric Drugs Connection", NEXUS, vol. 6, no. 5, 1999 25. FDA website, http://www.fda.gov/bbs/ top- ics/ANSWERS/2003/ANSO1 187.html Our daughters, instead of resorting to taking a pill to mask important warning signs, must be taught to make healthy choices through diet and lifestyle. Competent holistic health practitioners are important allies in regaining hormonal health. Even more challenging is the task of healing deeply held cultural myths. If women are truly to regain and maintain their health and love for their bodies, old myths and superstitions must be exorcised from our collective unconscious mind. The erroneous conscious and unconscious beliefs that are held about the female anatomy are passed on from generation to generation. Our daughters are the recipi- ents of this legacy—unless we choose to teach them otherwise. By healing these misconceptions, women can truly honour and appreciate their bodies—an important prerequisite for overall hormonal balance. oo About the Author: Sherrill Sellman is the author of the best-sell- ing book, Hormone Heresy: What Women Must Know About Their Hormones. Her new book, Mothers: Prevent Your Daughters From Getting Breast Cancer, will be released in April 2003. She is a regular contributor to NEXUS. Her articles on the Pill and HRT were published in NEXUS 4/04-05 and 9/01 respec- tively. Sherrill is on a national Australian lecture tour from March to May 2003. Visit her web- site at http://www.ssellman.com for details about this and other tours for 2003, or email her at golight@ earthlink.net. To subscribe to Sherrill Sellman's monthly HormoneWise e- Digest, send an email to hwise@ssellman.com. Endnotes 1. Angier, Natalie, Woman: An Intimate Geography, Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, 1999, p. 94 2. Wright, Dr James, The Gold Coast Bulletin, Wednesday, June 26, 2002, p. 31 3. Coutinho, Elsimar M. and Segal, Sheldon J., Is Menstruation Obsolete?, Oxford University NEXUS +75 The Medical Assault on Young Women FEBRUARY — MARCH 2003 www.nexusmagazine.com