Feed and nourish properly is essential in all ages of the life cycle, although each has specific stage. These energy requirements, meets the need to achieve each and every one of the nutrients that must meet a particular function in our body.
Menopause or climacteric is a transition between 40 and 50 years in the lives of women. Its irregular sexual cycle is usually done because it results in decreased ovarian hormone production, until a few years after full stops such as hormone production, reproductive capacity.
Process
Menopause involves physiological changes due to the lack of estrogen, hot flashes, irritability or anxiety.You can reach 2-3 kg increase in weight and fat distribution is altered, with increased volume in the abdominal area.
It may or may aggravate some health problems likely to dietary modifications in the diet although the three prevalent health problems in climacteric women are overweight, dyslipidemia (hypercholesterolemia) and osteoporosis (thinning of bones, with bone loss).
Prevention
It is important to develop a bone growth before age 25 years and that from then began a gradual loss, small but steady it.
The best protection against developing osteoporosis is prevention, is to develop a good peak bone mass before the age of 25 for which it should maintain a balanced diet rich in calcium, regular practice of physical exercise, limiting alcohol and abstaining from snuff.
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