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(Modern Nutrition.) Edited by Ira Wolinsky and Dorothy Klimis-Tavantzis. 335 pp. Boca Raton, Fla., CRC Press, 1996. $39.95. ISBN 0-8493-8502-4.

The nutritional needs of women merit special attention. Women have additional nutritional requirements during menarche, pregnancy, lactation, and menopause; are at higher risk than men for obesity, breast cancer, and osteoporosis; have long been neglected as research subjects because of such differences; and are special targets of advertising.

Even so, women are healthier than men. Women live longer, and although the three leading causes of death in women are the same as those in men — heart disease, cancer, and stroke — the rates of death from these conditions are much lower for women. This favorable health status, however, applies . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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