Seem to be putting on a few extra pounds lately? You’re not alone. During menopause, the majority of women find they either gain weight or have trouble staying at their usual weight, even when their eating and exercise habits are the same. Find out why it happens and what you can do about it.

How menopause weight gain is unique
Throughout most of life, women tend to gain weight around the hips and thighs. Once a woman enters perimenopause, though, fat tends to collect around the stomach area instead. Women who start menopause early have particular trouble with rapid weight gain. The good news is this struggle with weight will most likely end once you hit your mid-60s.

The first thing to understand is that it’s not all your fault. It’s not a sign you’ve been sleep-walking to the refrigerator every night. Even if you’re more careful about what you eat and start working out, you could still end up putting on a little belly fat. And losing weight during menopause can seem next to impossible.

The reason? Yes, you guessed: those good old hormones. Fluctuating levels of female hormones affect your appetite and the way your body stores fat. The main reason is that your body has started actively working to pack on fat. With your ovaries producing less estrogen, your body starts looking for other places to produce the hormone. Since fat cells can also produce estrogen, your body puts extra effort into turning calories into fat so there will be more room to produce estrogen.

Lifestyle
The most effective thing you can do to keep the weight off is to make sure your lifestyle isn’t promoting weight gain. Have you put your exercise routine on the back burner? If so, schedule in a little time for exercise if you need to. As we age, muscle tends to be replaced with fat, so exercise is even more important during the menopause years. It will also ward off osteoporosis. Keep a close eye on your eating habits, too. With an increased appetite, it’s easy to nibble a little here and a little there without noticing how much you’ve eaten. A food diary can help you keep track.

A diet plan to control menopause weight gain
Following a healthy diet plan for weight gain during menopause can help you stay trim and feeling good. Your first step should be to minimize the amount of fatty foods you eat. Ideally, no more than 20% of your daily calories should come from fat and these should be from like olive oil, nuts, and avocados.

A recent study done through the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Kaiser Permanente Medical Program also found that taking a calcium/vitamin D supplement can help menopausal women keep the weight off.

Weight gain during menopause is a problem just about every woman faces. Frustrating as it is, rest assured that it’s just a temporary annoyance caused by hormone fluctuation. To make sure the problem doesn’t get out of hand, though, follow a healthy diet and exercise at least half an hour a day.

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I hope that you aren’t expecting some miracle solution that will help you grow ten inches of hair in a month. Unluckily, growing hair takes time and lots of patience. If you hear someone claim that they can do it otherwise, I’d be very cautious before taking their advice. However, there are several things that you can do to attain healthy hair and speed up the growing process - if you’re willing to pay the price.

You may have noticed that women from the same family often have the same hair growth patterns. If you should see a woman that grows hair well, the chances are that the other women in her family grow hair well too. The same is true for women who cannot grow hair well. This is because heredity many times plays a big role in how our hair grows.

You may be saying, “My family members just aren’t hair growers, so I’m stuck, right?” Not necessarily. Many times family traits are inherited because nutritional habits are also passed down. Nutritional deficiencies can be inherited just the same as hair color. The good news is the cycle can be broken, but it takes patience. With proper nutrition, deficiencies can almost always be reversed, but sometimes it takes several months or even years to completely reverse.

Even if you don’t have a deficiency, proper nutrition and supplements can be used to boost you hair’s growth rate. If you want to add foods to your diet that will help hair growth here are a few you may want to try:

Barley: This nutritional grain is good for a number of things, but its high content of niacin, a B vitamin, is essential for healthy hair.

High protein foods: Without enough protein, hair is forced into the resting phase, and is shed prematurely. Try adding more lean meats, beans or lentils to your diet. Protein is composed of the amino acids necessary to grow new cells - including hair. (Have you ever noticed how beautiful a Hispanic woman’s hair is? It’s because of the high protein from the beans in their diet).

Avocados, nuts and seeds: These contain high vitamin E, necessary for healthy hair.

Raw oats and bean sprouts: These contain silica, a very important mineral that is a must for growing healthy hair.

Sufficient fat: Many people automatically turn their noses up when fat is mentioned, but certain amounts of fats are necessary for health in general and for healthy hair. The key is finding the right kinds of fats. EFAs (essential fatty acids) found in foods such as fish, and pumpkin, are extremely important for healthy hair. Also, find a good balance from other plant and animal sources.

Luckily, modern science has made it possible to get proper nutrition very easily without having to eat several pounds of the foods that contain the nutrients we need. This is through nutritional supplements. Even when taking nutritional supplements, make sure that you’re getting ones of a good quality, or they just won’t benefit. Make sure the supplement manufacturer has a reputation for good quality.

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If you have very curly hair, you may have a hard time growing hair. Curly hair rarely grows long, so this doesn’t mean that you have a deficiency. Curly hair is beautiful in its own way, whether it’s long or short.

There are several health situations that can keep your hair from looking its best. Thyroid problems, gastrointestinal issues, and even hormone imbalances. If you don’t notice at least some improvement in your hair’s quality after several months, you may consider an underlying health problem.

UB Group of India has developed the technology and been granted the US patent for manufacturing diet whisky and vodka, chairman Vijay Mallya said in what he described as an example of “thinking out of the bottle”.

“The plant called Garcenia contains some natural substances that works on your digestive system and actually breaks down your sugar cells and fat cells,” Mallya said Monday.

“It has been used in the United States health food industry for decades. But making this Garcinia soluble in liquid is a technology that we have developed and patented in the US,” he added.

“So we now have a legitimate diet whisky and a legitimate diet vodka,” which had been successfully tested for calories.

The flamboyant Indian entrepreneur told students at the London Business School that his Vittal Mallya Scientific Research Foundation in Bangalore has developed the technology to convert the active ingredient of an Indian fruit that helps fight obesity into a safe liquid version.

“We sent it to a lab to check the calorific value and we proved it,” Mallya said.

Mallya said manufacturing and marketing was delayed “because of the fighting with the European Union over classification”.

“All of this was developed by us in India. We do think out of the box - no, make that out of the bottle,” he said during a lecture and interaction session with LBS students - an event organised by the UK India Business Council and the business school’s India Business Forum.

Research by the Vittal Mallya Scientific Research Foundation has centred around a fruit from the Garcinia family, the Malabar Tamarind (biological name, Garcinia Cambogia), whose primary acid, hydroxycitric acid (HCA), can help bring about weight loss.

Garcinia fruits have been used as a common natural food flavouring agent on the Malabar Coast “for ages”, the foundation says on its website.

The research foundation says it has developed a unique soluble salt after extracting HCA acid from the Malabar tamarind, which not only lowers appetite but also helps control cholesterol, with no side-effects, including the ‘rebound effect’ which causes rapid weight gain after a weight loss.

The salt, described as a “highly soluble, off-white, free flowing, amorphous, tasteless and extremely pure calcium salt of near-neutral pH with 75 percent HCA content”, is available under the name of Hydroxycitrisol.

“Due to its soluble nature, Hydroxycitrisol can be readily incorporated into beverages, chocolates and other food formulations,” adds the research foundation.

A new study in mice has linked memory loss to a diet high in saturated fat and cholesterol.

Researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and Arizona State University found that rodents that were fed a diet high in cholesterol and saturated fat exhibited impairment in working memory.

This memory loss is linked to inflammation in the brain, as well as the impairment of structural proteins that affect how a nerve cell functions.

As inflammation is linked to a poor diet, the failure of functions in other key organs such as the eye and the ear also could be expected.

Assuming that the same phenomenon occurs in human beings, the study suggests that as humans’ age, memory may be preserved and brain functions improved by restricting the consumption of cholesterol and saturated fats.

People suffering from chronic back pain are likely to gain from an extra daily dosage of vitamin D, proposes a new study

Vitamin D is an important component for calcium absorption and bone health.

Inadequate vitamin D intake can result in a softening of bone surfaces, or osteomalacia, that causes pain. The lower back seems to be particularly vulnerable to this effect.

According to Stewart B. Leavitt, MA, PhD, editor of Pain Treatment Topics and author of the report, “our examination of the research, which included 22 clinical investigations of patients with pain, found that those with chronic back pain almost always had inadequate levels of vitamin D. When sufficient vitamin D supplementation was provided, their pain either vanished or was at least helped to a significant extent.”

In a study of 360 patients with back pain, the researchers found that all the patients had inadequate levels of vitamin D.

However, after taking vitamin D supplements for 3 months, 95 pct patients showed improvement in back pain symptoms.

The currently recommended adequate intake of vitamin D – up to 600 IU per day – is outmoded and too low. According to the research, most children and adults need at least 1000 IU per day, and persons with chronic back pain would benefit from 2000 IU or more per day of supplemental vitamin D3.

Vitamin D supplements interact with very few drugs or other agents, and are usually not injurious unless extremely high doses are taken. An extra dose of the vitamin D may provide relief from pain.

Leavitt said that vitamin D should not be viewed as a cure for all back pain and in all patients. It also is not necessarily a replacement for other pain treatments.

“ While further research would be helpful. Current best evidence indicates that recommending supplemental vitamin D for patients with chronic back pain would do no harm and could do much good at little cost,” he said.