Kalon Women – December column 
It’s hard to believe that it is December already and time to prepare for the holidays that will be celebrated this month! As we think about the various holidays, we are reminded that women helped establish religious traditions and religions in the U.S. In addition, women helped to fight for religious freedom – and were even executed for the cause!
The World Health Organization estimates that more than 220 million people worldwide have diabetes. In the U.S., it
is estimated that approximately 24 million people, or just under 8% of the population, have been struck with this disease – and its incidence is increasing.
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A Women is diagnosed with breast cancer every three minutes in the United States. Breast cancer strikes one in eight 
women. The statistics are staggering; they are even more powerful when the stat becomes humanized because you KNOW one of these women.
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For those of us who enter menopause it generally begins around age fifty and is the final stage of a woman’s life. 
Recent articles and life attitudes have addressed this phase as a fruitful opportunity for significant changes and the chance for growth and life reflection.
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Margaret Mead and Elizabeth Stanton – Most readers will recognize the names of these two famous women. Mead 
lived from 1901-1978 and Stanton from 1815 – 1902. Readers of our monthly column know that we enjoy highlighting women from our book Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America.
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Women have been instrumental in advocating for women’s health and for taking the lead in helping to save the 
health of our planet another form of ―wellness.
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