This year’s menopause awareness day’s theme was cardiovascular health. Mainly because each year around twice as many women die from heart disease than cancer. So what can you do? Well, a great way we can support our heart health (aside from lifestyle, exercise and reducing stress) is through our nutrition & diet.
Good nutrition can also help you manage your menopause symptoms, which is why we’re focusing on that this month.
By making relatively small adjustments to your diet, you can help reduce symptom severity. You can feel generally a lot more in control. Nutrition can also support you to improve your overall health, reduce risk of serious conditions like osteoporosis and heart disease, and improve general wellbeing during this period and beyond.
Around three quarters of women* say they experience unwanted symptoms in perimenopause and menopause, often including hot flushes, night sweats and palpitations.
If you regularly experience these symptoms then getting your blood sugar under control can really help. Levelling out your blood sugar highs and lows is key here. We know good nutrition can help your body cope better.
For our three top tips for improving your nutrition in perimenopause or menopause, download our free guide to nutrition and menopause to understand more and make a start today.
If you’ve already downloaded this free resource, or would like to know more now, grab your copy of Nutrition & diet for menopause health which takes you though three key factors to understand good nutrition around menopause. From what health concerns are affected by menopause, how a healthy diet can help you, which hormones are involved, top nutrition tips and recommendations, tackling weight gain, supplements and how you can get started it’s all covered.
* People born with ovaries.