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The menopause diet guide

This natural biological change leads to several issues in many women. Good health habits, including the right foods, can make a big difference. Some women seem to navigate menopause better than others, and it’s often linked to diet and lifestyle. For the small subset of women who do everything right—from eating a healthy diet and exercising daily to sleeping soundly and gracefully managing stress —their life rolls on with few disruptions. But, this is not how the majority of women roll… especially through menopause. Weight gain, hot flashes, irritability, loss of concentration and memory, night sweats, low libido, and vaginal dryness are a few things that occur during menopause. And if you’ve tried to self-educate and manage menopause naturally, undoubtedly you’ve found bits and pieces of wisdom—some worked, others didn’t. One of the more challenging aspects of menopause is weight gain, and it seems to happen almost overnight. There are

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Are organic foods better? It’s complicated

Industrial agriculture has been depleting our soils for decades. Do “organic” products truly contain more nutrients? There are many factors behind the quality of the foods we eat. OVERFED and undernourished doesn’t apply just to people any- more. It is occurring in the animals we raise for food, and even in the plants and crops we grow. Plants require a variety of nutrients in diverse quantities to grow, just as we do. We take in nutrients from our diets, with plants as the base of the food chain. And without the nutrients in the soil, the plants will be lacking as well. After all, soil is not just dirt underneath your feet. It includes a potpourri of decayed plant matter and manure from animal droppings. Worms and beetles also turn up in the soil, leaving behind their own organic matter in these biological processes. Everything lives and dies in this cycle,

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Building a healthy relationship with food

How to embrace NO DIETS or FOOD RESTRICTIONS, and create a HEALTHY, LASTING RELATIONSHIP with food. First things first: Diets don’t work. The last thing our world needs is another diet. Diet culture leaves us feeling unworthy of experiences because of our weight, body shame, or lack of food control. We’re constantly surrounded by poor body messages that tells us to restrict ourselves to feel happy, worthy, and even loved. That needs to change. With intuitive eating principles and a shifted mindset you’ll have the opportunity to feel free when it comes to your relationship with food and truly feel like yourself again. If you’re like me, you’ve tried every diet with little success. I’ve gone from diet to diet, restricting myself from certain foods or taking unnatural supplements to see results. But the truth is, when I finally reached my “goal” weight, I still felt disappointed, unfulfilled and starved, both mentally and

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