According to a new study, middle-aged women who are overweight or obese who lose weight may reduce the hot flashes that come with menopause. Researchers put a group of women on an intensive lifestyle-intervention program aimed at reducing their weight between seven percent and nine percent and compared the incidence of their hot flashes to a control group. They found that decreases in body mass index, abdominal circumference, and weight were associated with a reduction in hot flashes in these...
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Source: Breastcancer.org
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