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Sweet potatoes are so good for you…especially menopausal women.Here’s one of our favorite soups with an African influence.  You can double the amount of peanut butter if you like a more intense peanut flavor.Enjoy

Delicious Sweet Potatoe Soup...yummy and so good!

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 1 large onion, chopped
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 2 teaspoons minced fresh ginger root
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cumin
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground coriander
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 pinch ground cloves
• 3 medium tomatoes, chopped
• 1 1/2 pounds sweet potatoes, peeled and chopped
• 1 carrot, peeled and chopped
• 4 1/2 cups water
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 cup chopped, unsalted dry-roasted peanuts
• 1 pinch cayenne pepper
• 2 tablespoons creamy peanut butter
• 1 bunch chopped fresh cilantro

Directions

1. Heat the oil in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Saute the onion

When you are over 40 or close to menopause, your body reacts to exercise differently than that of a younger person. There are many benefits to a workout for women over 40. Weekly cardiovascular and strength training routines can stave off health problems later in life, including osteoporosis and heart issues. Getting active while you are still young is important. If you wait for too many years, it will get too difficult to start a routine. Doing a workout for women over 40 several times a week will help to keep you healthy for many years. When used in conjunction with a proper eating plan, you will not only get and stay healthy, but you may even lose a few pounds. Using a workout for women over 40 means that it is specifically designed for your particular point

A news study finds that the worse a woman’s skin wrinkles are during the first few years of menopause, the lower her bone density is. The results will be presented Monday at The Endocrine Society’s 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston.

“In postmenopausal women the appearance of the skin may offer a glimpse of the skeletal well-being, a relationship not previously described,” said Lubna Pal, MD, a reproductive endocrinologist and associate professor at Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.

The study demonstrates only an association between bone density and skin wrinkling, stressed Pal, the study’s principal investigator. However, she called their findings noteworthy.

“This information,” Pal said, “may allow for the possibility of identifying postmenopausal women at fracture risk at a glance, without dependence on costly tests.”

The study is an ancillary study to an ongoing multicenter trial called the

• As a woman enters perimenopause she begins to experience a variety of symptoms. She might have hot flashes or night sweats, feel irritable, anxious or have headaches. Other symptoms include low libido, depression and dry skin. Whatever the symptoms are, it usually has to do with fluctuations in a woman’s hormone levels which cause all sorts of problems during the menopausal years. Some women seem to breeze through menopause with a few mild problems, while others are so debilitated with major symptoms, they have difficulty maneuvering through life. For many women, symptoms like night sweats and hot flashes can last well into their sixties.Recently there’s been much research done on foods that help to ease menopausal symptoms. Certain foods and lifestyle changes hold promise as natural remedies for combating the problems associated with menopause. By eating

There are many reasons for the occurrence of night sweats. Below we discuss ten of the most common reasons for this pesky problem. For whatever reason you, family members or friends suffer from night sweats, moisture wicking pajamas offer a natural solution to the problem.

• MENOPAUSE: Menopause starts as the ovaries fail to produce an egg every month. This in turn interrupts the regular pattern of the hormone cycles, and gradually leads to the  somewhat chaotic and long-drawn out shutting down of the reproductive system. With this shut down, the hormones begin to fluctuate dramatically resulting in all   kinds of menopausal symptoms which include insomnia, night sweats and hot flashes to name a few.

• ANDROPAUSE: So you thought that women were the only ones to be effected by age related hormonal changes? Low levels of testosterone in men has

There are many reasons for night sweats to include pregnancy, certain medications, thyroid conditions, diabetes, obesity, chemotherapy, sleep apnea and anxiety; however, the most common reason for women over the age of forty seems to be the onset of menopause. During menopause women experience hormonal changes which can cause hot flashes and night sweats.

Men can also experience night sweats due to hormonal changes called Andropuase. The good news is that certain lifestyle changes can reduce the severity of night sweats regardless of the reason.

TIPS TO EASE NIGHT SWEATS

• Be consistent with the time your retire each night
• Get at least eight hours of sleep
• Avoid alcohol at bedtime because it can cause hormone levels to spike and drop suddenly thus leading to hot flashes.
• If night sweats do strike, get up, go to

Women in  menopause experience a range of symptoms .  One in five they will have severe symptoms while a lucky three in five will suffer only mildly.

I’m talking about bloating, aches and pains, headaches, hot flashes, night sweats, fatigue, insomnia, weight gain, depression, irritability, forgetfulness, lack of concentration, the amount of times you need the loo and painful sex.

Quite a list! And they can really interfere with the quality of your life. Could yoga possibly be the key to relief?

Since oestrogen deficiency is the cause of menopausal symptoms, hormone replacement therapy is the most effective treatment.

While you can treat certain symptoms like   night sweats with things like wicking pajamas or cooling sheets and wicking bedding, there really is  no other treatment comes close to the effectiveness of hormone therapy.

All kinds of alternative remedies are recommended, but very few

A fresh look at the medical evidence shows women who eat more fiber are less likely to get breast cancer.

Chinese researchers found those who ate the most of the healthy plant components were 11 percent less likely to develop breast cancer than women who ate the least.

Their findings don’t prove fiber itself lowers cancer risk, however, because women who consume a lot of it might be healthier overall than those who don’t.

The results “can identify associations but cannot tell us what will happen if people change their behavior,” said John Pierce, a cancer research at the University of California, San Diego, who was not involved in the work.

While earlier research has yielded mixed conclusions on the link between cancer and fiber, it would make scientific sense: According to the Chinese researchers, people who eat high-fiber diets have lower

Sleep apnea is a relatively common disorder affecting up to 19 million people in the U.S., most cases going undiagnosed. It is most common in adults 45 to 65 years old, more common in men and increased in women after menopause. It is also found in about 2-3 percent of children. Although not recognized as a disorder until the 1900s, a character in Charles Dickens’ “The Pickwick Papers” had the clinical picture of sleep apnea, and thus Pickwickian syndrome was an early name for the malady.

There are three types of sleep apnea — obstructive, central and mixed. Although they have different causes, people with all these types of sleep apnea repeatedly stop breathing during sleep. There are no specific blood tests for this condition.

Central sleep apnea is the less common form. It occurs when the area of your brain that controls breathing doesn’t send the correct signals to

We all know that sleep often becomes more difficult as we age. Some of us who’ve accumulated a certain number of birthday cards know this first hand! We also know that our circadian “clocks”—an internal mechanism that keeps us on a 24-hour, night-day cycle—function less well with age, and this contributes to sleep problems that can plague older adults, including:

• Difficulty falling asleep
• Trouble staying asleep
• Problems with daytime alertness

In addition to difficulty with nightly sleep, as we age we’re less likely to be able to cope with disruptions to our night-day routines, including difficulty adapting to time-zone changes, or working non-traditional hours, late at night or early in the morning.

Sleep is a critical factor in our long-term health and well being: studies show that it can play an important role in extending health and longevity and lack of sleep, in turn, can pose