Menopause: The joyous years of a woman's life

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Glutathione helps to:   
  Strengthen the immune system
  Detoxify the body
  Fight intracellular inflammation
  Neutralize many different types of free radicals
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Menopause friendly foods

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Foods to increase before, during and after menopause
Begin eating a nutritious food-lifestyle low in saturated fat. This will help reduce cholesterol and the risk of heart disease. Experts recommend that you keep your fat intake to 25% or less of the total calories you consume. Emphasize olive oil and avoid hydrogenated oils and most vegetable oils.
  • Boost your daily intake of fruits. Choose melons, bananas and citrus fruits like oranges and lemons, which are high in potassium. Potassium rich foods help balance sodium and water retention. 
  • Boost your daily intake of vegetables. Choose in particular, yam, dark leafy vegetables like kale, collard greens, spinach, pak choi, broccoli and cabbage, as well as peppers, tomatoes and a variety of others.
  • Eat regular amounts of fiber, especially soluble fiber.
  • Instead of fried foods, broil or bake.
  • Instead of white bread/flour, eat wholegrain bread, oats, rye, wheatgerm.
  • Instead of white rice (except basmati), switch to short grain brown rice and grains such as quinoa and amaranth. 
  • Eat fewer white potatoes, eat more sweet potatoes and red potatoes.
  • Add regular helpings of beans and lentils to your meals.
  • Junk the processed cooking oils, switch to unprocessed oils. Choose extra virgin olive oil, canola, wheatgerm, nut oils and flaxseed oil.
  • Eat oily fish (salmon, mackerel). Oily fish is rich in omega-3 essential fatty acids which provide a huge range of health benefits.
  • Snack on nuts (Brazils, walnuts) and seeds (pumpkin, sunflower, linseeds).
  • Try adding seaweed; ask at your local health food store. Choose Nori, Wakame, Kombu, Arame, which contain natural hormones and plant chemicals which help during menopause.
  • Drink more mineral/bottled water, less caffeine and modest amounts of alcohol. Look for water with a pH of 7.5 or higher
*Get your personal food plan to know which foods will work best for you.