{"id":92440,"date":"2013-10-18T10:12:49","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T15:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=92440"},"modified":"2013-11-04T17:33:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T22:33:12","slug":"5-ways-to-eat-drink-and-be-less-menopausal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/5-ways-to-eat-drink-and-be-less-menopausal\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Ways to Eat, Drink and be Less Menopausal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebestlife.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Team Best Life<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Menopause is thought of as just one of those things every woman has to go through, including its less-than-comfortable symptoms. But studies show that women can control just how bad menopausal symptoms are. It all depends on\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"menopause\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/5-ways-to-eat-drink-and-be-less-menopausal\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-92441\" alt=\"menopause\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/menopause.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/menopause.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/menopause-300x286.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>What you eat<\/strong>. Want to lower your incidence of hot flashes and night sweats? Avoid foods with refined sugar and high fats (like candy, cake or other sugary snacks). In one Australian study of 6,000 women, these foods correlated with a higher likelihood of hot flashes and night sweats. On the flip side, women whose diet was high in fruit and fish reported lower incidences of these symptoms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What you drink<\/strong>. The Harvard Women\u2019s Health Study revealed something surprising: Women who drink alcohol\u2014just one drink a day\u2014are less likely to gain weight in mid-life than those who don\u2019t drink at all. (One drink equals 12 ounces of beer, 5 ounces of wine or 1.5 ounces of hard liquor.) <strong><a title=\"red wine benefits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/02\/drinking-wine-as-part-of-a-heart-healthy-diet\/\">Red wine was found to be particularly protective<\/a><\/strong>. According to the researchers, this might be because women metabolize alcohol in a way that makes it less likely to result in increased fat. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>How you move<\/strong>. Weight gain seems to be a given of menopause\u2014at the very least, menopause makes it tough to shed pounds. That\u2019s why exercise is essential. In a Kaiser Permanente study of women who gained weight during menopause, those who exercised the most gained the least amount of weight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What you weigh<\/strong>. In one study, hot flashes and night sweats were 1.5 times less likely to occur in women who lost 10 percent of their body weight during the course of one year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How you breathe<\/strong>. Heavy, deep \u201cpaced\u201d breathing has been shown to <strong><a title=\"supplements for menopause\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/11\/2-supplements-that-ease-menopause-symptoms\/\">reduce menopausal symptoms<\/a><\/strong> by half, according to researchers at the Mayo Clinic. Try this: Six slow, very deep and full breaths six times a minute for 15 minutes twice a day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebestlife.com\/article-archive\/your-anti-aging-solution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Your Anti-Aging Solution<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebestlife.com\/3-pill-free-pain-fixes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">3 Pill-Free Pain Fixes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"prevent bone loss\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/shrinking-prevention-its-all-about-your-bone-health\/\">Shrinking Prevention: It&#8217;s All About Bone Health<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Team Best Life Menopause is thought of as just one of those things every woman has to go through, including its less-than-comfortable symptoms. But studies show that women can control just how bad menopausal symptoms are. It all depends &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/5-ways-to-eat-drink-and-be-less-menopausal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4333,58],"tags":[767,5503,533,23,3632,383],"class_list":["post-92440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-senior-health","category-womens-health","tag-aging","tag-best-life-diet","tag-bob-greene","tag-guest-blog","tag-menopause","tag-research-studies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92440"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92443,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92440\/revisions\/92443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}