Overweight - a cure for menopause

Doctors from the British Institute of Cancer Research concluded that the extra weight that a woman gathers in his youth, push menopause for at least a year.

Led the study Dr. Danil Morris believes that the factors which are usually associated with early onset of menopause - such as genetics and women's lack of children - are not actually defined. These reasons early menopause   It has been formulated in the course of investigations, which were carried out by experts in previous years. According to Morris, they are inconclusive and require retesting.

Data from the Institute of Cancer Research, show that the greatest influence on hormonal balance in the female body in adulthood has smoking. An avid lover of tobacco   early menopause   guaranteed: menopause in smokers, on average, started two years earlier than the rest.

"At the same time, overweight, on the contrary, postponing the arrival of menopause, on average for the year," - said Dr. Daniel Morris.

  As evidence, the expert cites more than 50 000 women aged 40-98 years. This statistic indicates that women who received about 14 kilograms of 20-30 years, faced with menopause a year later than the others. In addition, later menopause was observed in the study participants who regularly consumed red wine aged 25-49 years (two doses or less) and go to the gym in 30-49 years. It is also able to delay the onset of menopause mothers of three or more children.

REFERENCE
Menopause begins when the number of ovarian follicles in a woman's body falls below a certain point. Do the residents of the US and Europe, it usually occurs in 48-52 years.

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