Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition with licensed nutritionists and dietitians from nutritional weight and wellness.

We explain the connection between what you eat and how you feel.

Stay tuned for practical real-life solutions for healthier living through real food nutrition.

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Welcome everyone to Dishing Up Nutrition.

If you're experiencing symptoms of perimenopause or menopause or even postmenopausal,

I think you're going to want to stay tuned this

morning because we're going to be sharing some key information about how food choices can affect

menopausal symptoms. So here's just a quick example to start us off. When many women drink a

glass of wine in the evening, you know, what happens is

they will wake up in the middle of the night with night sweats or hot flashes. So if you can

relate to that, have you made that connection that just simply having a drink with alcohol

in the evenings can often lead to hot flashes or night sweats and a poor night's sleep.

For sure, I have definitely made that connection.

I did experience waking up from wine many times.

And now I rarely drink wine these days. But whenever I do have a glass of wine in the

evening yes it does help me fall asleep but then I wake up two or three times throughout the

night and can't get back to sleep the lesson I learned from this is wine can easily cause

women of a certain age have night sweats and poor sleep.

Also, eating a sugary treat before bed does the same thing. It spikes our blood sugar. The blood

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