| 11-01 TABLE of CONTENTS:
Lifestyle in youth affects health
in old age
DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
QUOTES by
Bernadette Devlin, Ethel Payne, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Janis Joplin, George
Sand, Lillian Carter, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, and Dorothy L. Sayers.
Women and Health
Young women of college age are able to reduce the
risk of fractures in their elderly years by a few changes in their lifestyles,
medical studies have found.
While it is best for women to be physically active
in their teens and pre-teens for denser bone mass, the potential for improvement
later in life should not be ignored.
In studies printed in the Journal of the American
Medical Association, it was shown that diet, physical activity, and calcium
supplements are critical in later years.
The active woman who jogs or played in sports about
three times a week and consumes about four servings of dairy products a
day is at the lowest risk for osteoporosis in later life - and their natural
estrogen hormone levels remain higher in later life.
Listen to this old lady, kids - exercise and eat right.
Being of an "advanced" age is much more
fun when you are healthy - and remember, you should have 30 or 40+ years
AFTER menopause that can be GREAT (a LOT more fun than you think) if you
watch what you do the first 25 years of your life.
It's your life - It's up to you.
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11-01 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
Event 11-01-0000, All Hallows Day according
to the "old religions." All Saints Day according to the Roman
Catholic Church.
B. 11-01-1811, Frances Miriam Berry Whitcher,
author, primarily of humorous insights into the village life of her
time.
B. 11-01-1847, Emma Albani, French-Canadian-British
soprano and voice teacher of international fame. Charles Gounod wrote
Mors et Vita expressly for her. Was the first Desdemona at the Metropolitan
in 1890. Awarded Dame of the British Empire in 1925.
Event 11-01-1848, Boston Female Medical School
opened its doors as the first all-woman medical school in the U.S.; now
a part of Boston University School of Medicine.
B. 11-01-1858, Mary Adelaide Nutting, instrumental
in raising the standards of nursing education and requirements, as
well as accomplishing significant breakthroughs in hospital administration,
public health, and home economics.
B. 11-01-1872, Helen Fuller Orton, author
of more than 35 books for children all with accurate historical backgrounds.
Sold more than a million books. Her mother was a schoolteacher.
Event 11-01-1921, the American Birth Control
League is founded by Margaret Sanger. Dissemination of birth control
information was a jailable offense in the United States at the time although
men in the army were given condoms bought with tax dollars as "disease
preventers."
B. 11-01-1923, Victoria DeLos Angelos, Spanish
soprano who sang 12 seasons with the Metropolitan Opera and known for
her interpretations of Spanish songs.
B. 11-01-1928, Irene
Stuber - award-winning journalist, author
and compiler of Women of Achievement and Herstory.
Event 11-01-1961, an estimated 50,000 women
demonstrate world-wide in Women Strike for Peace in opposition to nuclear
weapons.
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QUOTES DU JOUR
DEVLIN, BERNADETTE:
"Yesterday I dared
to struggle. Today I dare to win."
--
Bernadette Devlin
PAYNE, ETHEL:
"Age is not a handicap.
Age is nothing but a number. It is how you use it."
--
Ethel Payne
STANTON, ELIZABETH CADY:
"I shall not grow conservative
with age."
--
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
JOPLIN, JANIS:
"I'd rather have ten
years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn
chair watching TV."
--
Janis Joplin
SAND, GEORGE:
"The old woman I shall
become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another "I"
is beginning, and so far I have not had to complain of her."
--
George Sand in Isadora
MOTHER JONES:
"Get it right, I'm
not a humanitarian. I'm a hell-raiser."
--
Mother Jones
CARTER, LILLIAN:
"Every time I think
that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else
happens.
--
Lillian "Ms Lillian" Carter in Ms. Magazine, 1976
VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH, MARIE:
"Old age transfigures
or fossilizes."
--
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach.
SAYERS, DOROTHY L.:
"Time and trouble will
tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable
by any earthly force."
--
Dorothy L. Sayers in Clouds of Witness.
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