How to Control Menopause Symptoms with Vegetarian Diet

How to control menopause symptoms? One way is with vegetarian diet. The background the diet is due to only seven percent of Japanese women suffer from hot flashes, these Japanese women live in America. In Japan, there is not a word in their language for hot flashes. So what are the eastern women doing differently from the women of the western world? First thing that comes to my mind is diet. If you are interested in controlling your hot flashes and other menopause symptoms then follow these tips.

1. Eliminate meat, dairy products and sugar from your diet as these foods cause hot flashes. Also, avoid all caffeinated foods and beverages.

2. Eat brown rice for the first 10 days, after that jasmine rice can be added to your diet. No other white food; bread, potatoes, sugar, and forget about chips!

3. Add vegetables, fruits, soy, and tofu, whole grains, seaweed, and grass; barley and wheat to your diet. If you stick with this diet you will consume vegetable protein, low fat, moderate soy compounds, which have plentiful photo estrogen’ s which mimic female hormones.

4. Drink hot Green tea with all of your meals, because hot breaks down fat content. Always drink eight glasses of water each day. Do not drink alcoholic beverages or soda. Make your own juices, they have natural sugar and are rich in antioxidants.