Fit to Die

Death to dieting

BookPage® Review by Tasha Alexander

In the second Supper Club Mystery, James Henry and his fellow dieters, the Flab Five, are not meeting with much success on their low-carb plan. A new ice cream shop, Chilly Willy's Polar Pagoda, has opened in Quincy's Gap, Virginia, and it's loads more appealing than eating what they should. Praline sundaes or low-fat popcorn: What would you choose? But newcomer Veronica Levitt has a start-up business of her own, and she's bent on getting the Flab Five to join her at Witness to Fitness. When a deliberately set fire consumes Chilly Willy's and takes the life of an employee, James and his friends are on the case. J.B. Stanley's Fit to Die will appeal to anyone who's experienced theUrinary excretion of relaxin after estradiol treatment of postmenopausal women.
The influence of estradiol treatment on the urinary excretion of relaxin, a hormone in earlier years only found during pregnancy and presently associated with functions in the cardiovascular system, was investigated in postmenopausal women. Thirteen postmenopausal women were treated with transdermal estradiol and 12 women with oral estradiol for 4 weeks. A new radioimmunoassay for human-relaxin (rec-hRLX-2) was used. With transdermal, but not with oral administration, a significant increase of urinary relaxin excretion was registered. Further experiments are necessary to elucidate the source of urinary relaxin and its role in the hormone replacement therapy of postmenopausal women.