The Menopause Made Simple Program: Maximise Your Lifestyle by Minimising Your Symptoms

This book is written in non-technical language without assuming any prior knowledge on your part, with 19 chapters organised into six steps.

The first five steps deal with important research based information to help you understand what’s happening at this stage of life. The step 6 is about putting the ‘menopause made simple programme’ into practice.

Step 1 covers menopause specifically but places it in the context of general health. It touches briefly on perceptions and expectations of menopause and the reasons why menopause has become such a high profile topic.

Step 2 covers body weight and special dietary considerations during or for menopause and encourages discernment in your choice of food. Particular attention is paid to cholesterol in fat, and to calcium.

Step 3 examines the physical and psychological benefits of exercise for women at menopause with illustrated examples. A section is dedicated to pelvic floor exercises.

Step 4 is concerned with the controversial question of whether or not to use HRT. The authors have managed to simplify some of the research data that so frequently leaves us bewildered.

Step 5 gives a very brief outline of some complementary therapies, providing sufficient detail to act as a springboard to more comprehensive writings and expertise in the field of alternatives to HRT.

Step 6 provides the 12 week programme journal for putting into practice lifestyle changes that incorporate all the positive changes highlighted in Steps 1-5.

If you are motivated by journaling, this can be of great help. I personally find journals tedious. But it’s up to you.

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