Good nutrition can influence menopause symptoms like hot flushes, poor sleep, weight gain and vaginal dryness. Read on to see what you can do and to download your free quick and simple guide to menopause nutrition.
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Food affects mood in a whole host of surprising ways, from vitamin links in metabolic pathways, to our associations with birthday cake.
Food and mood are closely related. Whether you feel irritable because you haven’t eaten or you feel like you need to eat comfort food because you’ve had a hard day, the two things are difficult to separate. We have a couple of things going on here. On the one hand there is the psychological prop of having something comforting, and on the other there is the biological need for nutrients. Both are important.
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The gut, or digestive tract, is an organ that digests our food in several stages. As part of digestion it takes all the useful parts from the food we eat and absorbs them so our bodies can make use of them in the constant act of staying alive. It links with other organs like the liver, and pancreas; and it protects from poisons; stores and transports nutrients; reabsorbs water and gets rid of the stuff we can’t use. It also plays host to many different species of bacteria that live in symbiosis with us. These bacteria have a constant source of food and in return they provide functions such as extracting nutrients, making vitamins and training our immune systems.
Going on diet is something that so many people do on a regular basis. Before you embark on a miserable experience, read on…
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A lot of the clients I see have been struggling with their weight for a number of years and have tried losing weight on their own, often successfully at first, but always regained the weight and generally more than they lost.
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