Are there certain foods that increase menopause symptoms that women should avoid?
They should avoid anything that’s going to boost or upset blood sugar levels. We normally call these high glycemic foods and they digest very quickly and tend to spike blood sugar levels. Usually anything that is highly processed, most cold breakfast cereals are good examples, or most of the grain-based snack foods, those tend to spike blood sugar levels, which merely exacerbates some of the mood swings, the sleeplessness and the hot flashes that women typically get as symptoms of menopause. Q: Are there specific foods that women can eat to help level off those spikes in hormones? A: Low-glycemic index foods. To explain, the glycemic index measures the speed at which food digests into sugar to go into your bloodstream so the ones that are high G.I. are the ones that spike the blood sugars because it digests very quickly into your bloodstream. The ones that more slowly digest and will steadily deliver sugar into your bloodstream are the low G.I. foods. Typical of the low G.I. foods are
