Women do not get enough vitamin D during the menopause, Spanish study suggests

A healthy diet is especially important during the menopause – a period in which the risk of suffering from health problems increases. Various studies analyze the diet of peri- and postmenopausal women in Spain alongside the troubles that come with this transition. The results show that all of those groups studied have a deficient intake of vitamin D.

Resolutions for Wellness

Each year folks resolve to get more healthy. These normally include things like “I want to lose a lot of weight” or maybe “I want to eat really healthy from now on.” Wanting to boost your health is a really good goal. The real truth is that there are very few people who don’t need to improve their health in some way. All the same, it is really simple to go overboard in terms of New Year’s resolutions. Unfortunately a lot of people attempt to do too much too quickly because they shed all of their motivation by February or March.

So how do you make the dedication to getting healthful without going overboard? There are generally a pair of schools of thought here. The first states to go little by little and produce small goals for yourself. The next claims that it is better to plan out the long term with shorter jaunts along the way. Both techniques are beneficial if you would like get healthy and accomplish the things you resolve. More importantly, if you think about the bigger picture it is easy to break that picture down into a bunch of littler pixels that you can accomplish in order. Here are some good examples. And do this outside, ideally on artificial grass.

If you’re looking to lose 50lbs by 2012 that may be split into a not much more than four pounds per month or one pound per week. That’s correct: just a little bit more than one pound per week. That’s manageable. Just abstaining from soda pop should enable you to get there. Obviously staying away from soda alone isn’t really enough to get the job done but it can help you gather steam when you are first starting and while you learn how to keep off the pounds that you drop every week.

If you are interested in animal rights and would like to go the vegan route, don’t try to do this all at once. Your health and wellbeing will hurt and the withdrawals you face will make your transition a lot harder to take and you will be less likely to stick to it in the long run. Start out by quitting one particular kind of meat. Then, after a time, drop yet another kind of meat. Once you’ve removed all of the major meat groups from your diet, you can focus on cutting out dairy. After you have fixed your dependence on dairy, start working on eliminating all of the animal-based ingredients in the bigger foods you eat (jello, for example, contains gelatin which is made from animal products). And to celebrate your success, go whale watching if you are anywhere near the sea. This will allow you to learn what to seek out on ingredients labels over a longer period of time (which will let you commit things to memory) and figure out what new things you can eat to make up for the foods that you’ve cut out.

There are lots of ways that you could get healthier during the year. New Year’s resolutions can be a great way to find motivation to get started on the work you need to do. Use small goals to help you keep working long past the time when you would normally give up on your resolutions and health goals.

Fatigues To Fabulous To Aid Women Veterans

SWHR is excited to announce that Tuesday, February 15th during Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, SWHR and our partner Grace After Fire, a support network for women veterans, will be launching the Fatigues to Fabulous (F2F) campaign a national program created to honor the service of women veterans and support their transition home…

Are You Going Through Menopause?

Menopause is not a disease that needs to be cured, but a natural life-stage transition. However, women have to make important decisions about "treatment," including supplementing with Omega 3’s.

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Antidepressant medication reduces frequency and severity of menopausal hot flashes

Women who were either in the transition to menopause or postmenopausal experienced a reduction in the frequency and severity of menopausal hot flashes with the use of the antidepressant medication escitalopram, compared to women who received placebo, according to a study in the January 19 issue of JAMA.

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