Well, admittedly this is not simply a food blog. The Blog That Ate Manhattan is an extremely informative and well written blog. It disappeared for a while, when the blogger, whose name I can't remember (and she has not revealed it on the new blog), erased her template accidentally. But apparently this person, who explains herself by saying, "I practice medicine, cook, and wax prolific in New York City" was addicted to blogging like so many of us, because she came back. She has written on a number of interesting subjects besides food, but none that I thought more fitting for the Blogher readers than this four part series on hormone replacement therapy. It's a complicated subject, and I won't even try to summarize what she's written, except to say if you're a woman, especially a woman past the age of forty, read every word of it.

Part one talks about the early days of hormone replacement therapy, before the release of the study that rocked our world.

Part two talks about reactions and over-reactions to the study and options that emerged.

Part three talks about the rules this person has developed for herself to guide her work as a physician deciding whether to prescribe HRT for patients. (Read this one if you don't have time to read the whole series.)

In Part four the author expressed some opinions about bio-identical hormones (some of which may surprise you.)

Read the whole series if you have time, and then add The Blog That Ate Manhattan into your feed reader post haste! You won't be sorry you did.

Contributing editor Kalyn Denny cooks, photographs, and blogs about her food at Kalyn's Kitchen, and tries not to spend too much time thinking about how hormones are improving the quality of her life.