Friday, May 22, 2009

Avoiding Hot Flashes During Menopause with a Healthy Diet

By Ricardo d Argence

Menopause can be an extremely irritating problem for a lot of women, but it is unavoidable. It isn't necessary for women to have has much discomfort as they do, however.

Even if hot flashes are normal during menopause, there are ways to avoid them. To get rid of the hot flashes fast, just add a few different things to your daily diet.

Soybeans are rich in several estrogenic compounds such as daidzein and genistein. This helps to control hot flashes. Since the Japanese eat a diet that is abundant in soy, just 7% of women in Japan have hot flashes with menopause. Tofu is especially good for mimicking the activity of women hormones.

Other foods that you should incorporate into your diet are vegetable proteins (instead of animal proteins), tofu, fresh vegetables, magnesium-rich foods, calcium-rich foods, mineral-rich foods, cold-pressed oils, and nuts. Adding sea vegetables to your diet can help replenish electrolytes that are typically lost during excessive perspiration. Drinking plenty of water is essential for this same reason as well.

If you want to avoid getting hot flashes, then you should stay away from certain foods, however, you should also eat other certain foods. When you eat spicy foods, excess sugar, alcohol, caffeine, dairy products, and meat products the triggering of hot flashes, as well as mood swings can be more frequent.

The reason hot flashes get worse when you consume alcohol or caffeine is that this makes acid in the blood and this affects the liver. Smoking will also make worse the effect of hot flashes.

Keeping up a regular exercise regimen is also helpful in controlling hot flashes. Often a woman begins to feel down when she is going through menopause. It reminds you that you're getting older. Exercising daily can keep you fit and toned and makes you feel fabulous, no matter what your age!

You can rise your estrogen levels with regular exercise. It will, at least, make your hot flashes less severe. Exercise also helps reduce the frequency of many of the other negative side effects of menopause like depression, insomnia, fatigue, lethargy, and anxiety.

Never allow menopause to dictate the quality of your life. You can't stop it from occurring, but you can manage how it influences your lifestyle. Changing your lifestyle and diet a little can help you endure this time in your life and end up happier and healthier than ever before.

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1 comments:

  1. An article about menopause written by a man lacks credibility!!

    As a martial arts student going through menopause, I think it might be helpful to have some input from other women fighting new and irritating levels of fatigue and emotional ups and downs affecting confidence.

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