It contains 250 recipes that Shandler devised for foods to relieve her discomfort, including salad dressings and soups, muffins and mousse cake. Just one slice of mousse cake a day, she swears, keeps those hot flashes at bay. Forget the fact that tofu doesn't taste particularly good, Shandler breezily advises. It's like flour. Flour is a useful ingredient.
Nobody expects it to taste good.
Just throw a little silken tofu into a blender, add a splash of vanilla extract, a sprinkling of cocoa powder, a dollop of maple syrup, and you'll see. And as full menopause draws nearer, physicians typically prescribe Premarin, an estrogen derived from pregnant mares' urine. Many women clearly think so. At 49, Love, a vocal and controversial critic of hormone-replacement therapy, has entered perimenopause. To cope, she exercises daily, adds phytoestrogen-rich foods like soybeans and flaxseed to her diet and doses herself with black cohosh, an herbal source of phytoestrogens that comes in liquid or tablet form.