A healthy diet can delay menopause by three years

What you eat can affect when you enter menopause. Fish, pasta and some other foods can affect hormonal changes...

There are many factors that can affect the onset of menopause, from genetics, smoking, chemotherapy... but a new study from the University of Leeds reveals how what you eat can also affect the onset of menopause!

Scientists have concluded that a diet consisting mostly of healthy foods such as peas and fatty fish can delay the onset of menopause by as much as three years, while it is possible that people who eat a lot of pasta and rice will enter menopause 18 months earlier than average.

The time of onset of menopause can have health consequences, whether you entered it too early or too late, it is associated with the development of breast, ovarian or uterine cancer.

"Problems related to early menopause include an increased risk for heart and bone diseases, the development of depression, dementia and sexual dysfunction," emphasized Dr. Filip Sarel and added that the benefits of proper nutrition are great, and this study is an important step towards a better understanding. of the factors that affect entering menopause, especially for women who have a predisposition to enter it too early, reports Beauty and Health.