What You're Eating and What's Eating You

What's Eating You?


The menopausal process is a wonderful time to make the mind, body, spirit connection. It is a time that requires you to pay absolute attention to yourself. What you are putting into your body both in terms of the foods we ingest, but more importantly the emotions that we allow to enter our being. Though it is nearly impossible to completely avoid negative stressors, we can control how we choose to manage the stress in our lives. There is a African proverb that says, "that that does strengthen you, should be released for it is a false treasure." Avoid or reduce your interactions/relationships with those persons that don't add value to your life.


What You Are Eating.

A diet rich in fruits, vegetables and fiber are critical during this phase of the female life cycle. Decrease alcohol and caffeine intake because both can increase hot flash symptoms. Health expert Dr. Andrew Weil makes the following suggestions to relieve some of the symptoms of menopause and peri-menopause.


Omega-3 for Menopause Symptoms

If menopause has got you down, omega-3 supplements may help. A new study from Canada’s Université Laval found that these essential fatty acids helped boost the mood of menopausal and peri-menopausal women suffering from mild depression and psychological distress. (It didn’t work well with women who had more severe depressive symptoms.) What’s more, the omega-3s were as efficacious as hormone replacement therapy and anti-depressants in reducing the incidence of hot flashes, the researchers reported. The Laval team recruited 120 women age 40 to 55 for the study and divided them into two groups. One group received capsules containing a total of one gram of EPA, an omega-3 fatty acid, and took three per day for eight weeks. The other group was given similar looking capsules that contained only sunflower oil with no omega-3. When the study began, the women were having about 2.8 hot flashes a day. These dropped to 1.2 in the omega-3 group but only to 2.3 in the sunflower oil group. The study was published in the February 2009 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and in the November 8, 2008 online edition of the journal Menopause.

Be sure to get adequate sleep even if you have to utilize natural supplements or yoga exercise to assist you in getting a good night sleep. Make sure your body gets the right vitamins, whether it be through food, supplements or both. Be especially mindful that you are getting enough calcium, iron, and vitamins D & E. These vitamin have been found to aid in the prevention of bone loss and in preventing or decreasing some cancers,

"Sisters of the Red Moon Passing" , celebrate, honor and embrace this phase of life by reconnecting and integrating your mind, body and spirit.