Thread: Best Diet For Menopause

Diet Nutrition is Crucial

For optimum health and feelgood during menopause, focus on good diet nutrition. A healthy nutritious diet not only minimizes all the additional medical health risks of menopause and general ageing, it also reduces both physical and mental symptoms of menopausal life. Choose as many 'natural' foods as possible.

Healthy Menopause Diet - 15 Suggestions

• 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. Also include some dried fruit like apricots and figs.
• Boost your daily intake of vegetables (inc. salad) 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.
• Introduce soy foods (eg. soybeans, calcium-fortified soy milk, soy yogurt and tofu.) into your daily eating.
• Eat regular amounts of fiber, especially soluble fiber.
• Junk the fried foods, instead broil or bake.
• Junk the white bread/flour, eat wholegrain bread, oats, rye, wheatgerm.
• Junk the white rice (except basmati), switch to long grain brown rice.
• Eat fewer regular potatoes, eat more sweet potatoes and pasta.
• 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 and flaxseed oil.
• Make oily fish (salmon, mackerel) a regular feature of your diet
• Oily fish is rich in omega-3 essential fatty acids which provides a huge range of health benefits.
• Snack on nuts (Brazils, walnuts), seeds (pumpkin, sunflower, linseeds), dried fruit (apricots, figs).
• Try adding seaweed to your diet; 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.
• Enjoy high-calorie junk foods as an occasional treat only

Source: anniecollins

These are great suggestions. The menopausal stage is really difficult that is why women need to eat right. I will definitely share this with my mom so she knows which foods are healthy for her. Thanks for posting this

This is a great and helpful post. There is a lot of information and awareness so we can share them to people who needs them. Thanks for sharing this

Your diet plans is good .
Thanks to share .

Since we are taking about healthy menopause diet, here are the drinks that you need to avoid during menopause:

tea
coffee
alcohol
Soft drinks containing caffeine

I heard it only makes hot flashes worst so it's best to stay away from these drinks.

Thank you for sharing this, mikaela, viktoria. This would really help my mom a lot.