In addition to paying attention to mental health during women's menopause, a reasonable diet is also very important. Complex vitamin B is helpful for maintaining nerve function, promoting digestion, preventing headaches, dizziness, and maintaining memory. Millet, cereals, corn and other coarse grains and mushrooms, mushrooms and other anthraquinones contain rich vitamin B, menopausal women should eat these foods properly.
Menopausal women with water and salt metabolism disorder, prone to water and sodium retention, causing edema, and further raise blood pressure. Therefore, salt should be restricted. The amount of salt should be half that of middle-aged and young people. Menopausal women often have disorders of glucose metabolism and fat metabolism, and are prone to blood sugar elevation, elevated blood lipids, body obesity, and diabetes and atherosclerosis. Therefore, menopausal women eat less sweets, animal fats and animal organs, and eat more coarse grains. With age, basal metabolism is reduced, and excess energy easily occurs. Therefore, obese women should limit the consumption of staple foods. In the diet should ensure the supply of protein, you can eat more lean meat, chicken, fish, eggs, dairy products and soy products. In general, vegetable oils have a high content of unsaturated fatty acids. For example, soybean oil, rapeseed oil, corn oil, sesame oil, and sunflower oil all contain high calories. Excessive consumption may cause excess energy. It has been reported that excessive intake of unsaturated fatty acids can also increase the incidence of cancer.
Many menopausal menstrual disorders, menstrual flow, menstrual period prolonged, shortened cycle, often can lead to anemia. In this regard, we must first actively treat menstrual disorders, while paying attention to supplement protein, iron, vitamins A, G, B12 and folic acid, eat more animal liver, lean meat, chicken and duck blood and fresh vegetables, fruits, red dates, red bean, longan, Glutinous rice also has the effect of strengthening the spleen Qi and enriching blood.
Menopausal calcium and phosphorus metabolism in women, prone to bone decalcification, osteoporosis, it should be added calcium. Can eat more fish, shrimp, sesame, soy products and other calcium-rich foods. Milk is rich in calcium and easily absorbed. It is an ideal calcium supplement.
Menopausal women do not smoke and drink alcohol, coffee, tea and other stimulating beverages. Jujube, red dates, etc. have a soothing effect, can eat more.
"Medicine is better than food supplement." Menopausal women who take care of mental health and reasonable diets can not only survive the menopause, but many discomfortable diseases can be cured.