首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
We have to admire Suzanne Somers’s persistence. She doesn’t give up--even when virtually the entire medical community is lined u
We have to admire Suzanne Somers’s persistence. She doesn’t give up--even when virtually the entire medical community is lined u
admin
2010-07-19
28
问题
We have to admire Suzanne Somers’s persistence. She doesn’t give up--even when virtually the entire medical community is lined up against her. Three years ago, Somers wrote a best-selling book called The Sexy Years in which she promoted so-called bioidentical hormones as a more natural alternative to hormones produced by drug companies for menopausal women. Somers, now 60, claimed that these individually prepared doses of estrogen and other hormones, sold via the Internet or by compounding pharmacies, made her look and feel half her age. As the popularity of bioidenticals soared, major medical organizations like the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists grew so alarmed that they mounted publicity campaigns to convince Somers’s readers that these alternative treatments, which are usually custom made for each patient, haven’t been proven safe or more effective than traditional hormone therapy for symptoms like hot flashes.
This month Somers is at it again with her latest book, Ageless. Subtitled The Naked Truth About Bioidentical Hormones, the cover features a coquettish shot of the actress unclothed from the collarbone up. Inside, she calls bioidenticals "the juice of youth" and also promotes the questionable dosage advice of a former actress and "independent researcher" named T.S.. Wiley who thinks menopausal women should have as much estrogen in their bodies as 20-year-olds. Now, even some of the pro-bioidentical doctors Somers quotes in her books are screaming foul. "Many of the claims throughout the book are scientifically unproven and dangerous," three of these doctors assert in a letter sent a few weeks ago to Somers’s publisher, Crown.
Somers adamantly defends bet book and bioidenticals. "From a woman’s standpoint, this is the first time we’ve gotten some relief in a non-drug way," she says in an interview with NEWSWEEK. "Doctors are embarrassed that they don’t know about this," Somers says. "When doctors don’t have an answer, they like to pooh-pooh it."
The word bioidentical is a marketing term, not a scientific one, and it means different things to different people. To most doctors, bioidentical refers to a wide variety of FDA-approved drugs that are virtually identical to the hormones produced by women’s ovaries. They come in many forms and doses, some of which have been used for years. Somers uses the term to refer to made-to-order treatments created by compounding pharmacies with dosages usually determined by the results of blood tests every two weeks (the method Somers herself uses), or regular saliva tests, a method most experts say is an unreliable way to measure a women’s specific hormone needs. Somers claims that she is so "in touch" with her body’s needs that she can "tweak" her hormones even without the benefit of these tests.
Proponents of Somers’s program say only hormones prepared specifically for each woman can meet her unique needs. But since the Women’s Health Initiative, the FDA has approved many new hormone products, including some in very low doses. While the FDA process isn’t perfect, it’s certainly better than what consumers get with compounding products: no black box warning about side effects, no package insert, no data on relative safety, no check on advertising claims and no manufacturing oversight.
Somers says these custom-made treatments are natural and not really drugs. That’s just not true. Bioidenticals may start out as wild yams or soybeans, but by the time this plant matter has been converted into hormone therapy, it is in fact a drug. All of these products--whether or not they’re approved by the FDA--are chemicals synthesized in a lab. Another thing you should know: there are only a few labs in the world that synthesize these hormones. Everyone--from small compounding pharmacies to big pharmaceutical companies gets their ingredients from the same places,
Somers argues that bioidenticals are safer than FDA-approved hormones even though there are no high-quality studies to prove that assertion. In the absence of any reliable research to the contrary, most women’s health experts say it’s prudent to assume that all hormone products (FDA approved or not) carry the same heart disease and cancer risks.
The word "pooh-pooh" in the third paragraph probably means ______.
选项
A、disdain.
B、loathe.
C、disregard.
D、glorify.
答案
A
解析
语义理解题。由题于定位至第三段。该句是Somers为自己受到批评而进行的辩护:When doctors don’t have an answer,they like to pooh-pooh it.显然这里的pooh-pooh有负面含义,排除[D]。由于医生们明确表示了反对,[C]“忽视,漠视”不符合文意,排除。从前面内容来看,医生们只是对她的观点提出质疑,并非水火不容的敌对状态,[B]“憎恨”程度过重,排除。只有[A]“鄙视,不屑”符合语境,故为答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/ptlO777K
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
1Medicalconsumerism—likeallsortsofconsumerism,onlymoremenacingly—isdesignedtobeunsatisfying.Theprolongat
ThewritersuggeststhatthereisnosenseinbuyingthelatestvolumeThroughoutthepassage,thewriter’stonetowardstheDN
WHAT’SONCONCERTSNewconcerthall:ThemovietheatreoftheNationalLibraryofChinahasbeenturnedintoaconcerthall
Nowadays,somestudentshavedroppedoffschooltostarttheirownenterprises.Theyhavetheirownidol:BillGateswhohaslef
Thebesttitleofthispassagewouldbe______.WhatcanheinferredfromtheMichaelFaycase?
Justafewweeksago,economistsandmarketanalystswereexpectingtheFederalReservetocutshortterminterestratesonefin
TheWorldHealthOrganizationsaysitsten-yearcampaigntoremoveleprosyasaworldhealthproblemhasbeensuccessful.Doctor
TheWorldHealthOrganizationsaysitsten-yearcampaigntoremoveleprosyasaworldhealthproblemhasbeensuccessful.Doctor
随机试题
从具有n个结点的单链表中查找值等于x的结点时,在查找成功的情况下,平均需比较_______个结点。
下列不是胆囊切除的适应证的是
酮体包括
工字形截面梁在图5—5—18所示荷载作用下,截面m—m上的正应力分布为()。
下列各项中,不属于《会计法》规定的行政处罚的方式是()。
2017年3月1日某外贸公司进口一批高档化妆品(适用消费税税率为15%),成交价格为280000元,关税税率为50%,从起运地至境内输入地点起卸前发生运费40000元,进口货物的保险费无法确定。海关于2017年3月10日填发税款缴款书,该公司于2017年4
()能够最大限度地避免经济损失,持久维护和提高商业银行的声誉和股东价值。
下列经济合同,属于无效经济合同的是()。
班主任在班级管理中扮演的角色有()。
A、Thenewcoatwasboughtforhisuncle.B、Hesuddenlygrewveryfat.C、Hiscoatwastakenawaybymistake.D、Theyshouldn’thav
最新回复
(
0
)