Nutrition, Health, Meal Plan, Women's Health Catherine Polet Nutrition, Health, Meal Plan, Women's Health Catherine Polet

How to eat when menopause hits

Are you a menopausal woman feeling stressed, tired, and experiencing weight gain, hot flashes, and night sweats?

In that case, you may have difficulty adapting to this new stage in your life. Here are some tips on eating when menopause hits to help you feel better and cope with the changes.

Healthy dietary choices can help manage these changes — let's see how.

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Autogenic training: More than just a relaxation technique

You know how it is: balancing a job, household, family, and free time is not easy in everyday life. You often feel stressed and find it difficult to relax at the end of the day. But that doesn't have to be so.

Various relaxation techniques are available that can help you reduce stress. Autogenic training is particularly helpful. Learn what is behind it and how it can help you too to find inner peace and health.

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Wellbeing, Health, Nutrition Catherine Polet Wellbeing, Health, Nutrition Catherine Polet

The direct impact of sleep and stress on your weight

There is a direct connection between sleep and weight and stress and weight. Knowing how these connections affect you can make you break out of a vicious circle and regain more energy, be more relaxed and shed this unwanted weight.

When you understand the impact of sleep on your weight, you might reconsider your sleep habits and enjoy your bedtime.

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Nutrition, Health, Women's Health, Exercise Catherine Polet Nutrition, Health, Women's Health, Exercise Catherine Polet

How to improve your PMS symptoms to feel better

Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) can hit you out of nowhere. You can feel irritated, bloated or just plain tired.

You don’t have to let it hold you back from everyday life. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle with frequent exercise, good sleep hygiene, and reducing stress can help you control the bloating, depression, irritability and mood changes associated with PMS. Here’s what you can do to feel better.

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Meditation or how to withstand the stress of today's life

“Before enlightenment chop wood and carry water. After an enlightenment chop wood and carry water.”

This Zen quote is about daily practice. There are days that flow and days that do not. It is easy to think that there are other more pressing things we need to do each day in order to “achieve more” yet we can achieve so much more by doing less.

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