Yoga may ease insomnia, menopause problems

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A couple of yoga sessions a week could help ease sleep problems and other effects of menopause, a small study suggests. The study, reported in the journal Menopause, included postmenopausal women diagnosed with insomnia. “We are not saying that yoga can cure postmenopausal symptoms,” Dr. Helena Hachul, one of the study authors, wrote in an email to Reuters Health …

Walking may ease some burdens of menopause

Walking for 45 minutes a few times a week may help women in the “battle of the bulge” that often accompanies menopause, and at the same time improve overall well being, hints new research from Canada. Pointing out that the 45 minutes can be broken up into shorter jaunts, researcher Dr. Pascale Mauri�ge, of Quebec’s Laval University, told Reuters Health in an email it’s a program that could be …