[LoneGreenEyeshade]

Yeah, sure, diet helps. And estrogen goes even further than a good diet will get you. More and more research is showing that estrogen is "the fountain of youth" for women, especially those who no longer naturally produce it. I don't advocate taking the pill for birth control purposes. But for women like myself, and others, who can no longer produce estrogen, it does far more than a healthly diet alone can do.

[Notwithstanding]

Meeting Report 02/11/2002 Newest version of 'the pill' confers same stroke risk as old pill ©2002 American Heart Association, Inc.
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3000690

SAN ANTONIO, Feb. 7 – The first major study of ischemic stroke in women taking the latest form of low-estrogen birth control pills finds that they still have about double the stroke risk of women not taking the pill. These findings were reported today at the American Stroke Association’s 27th International Stroke Conference. The American Stroke Association is a division of the American Heart Association.