With Your Diet for Menopause, Let's Think Magnesium

Yes, mom was right to say "eat your vegetables". Magnesium is one reason why we should have had the dinner salad, instead of the Big Mac. Those dark green leafy vegetables do us a world of good because they are full of our friend, Magnesium.Who cares, you say? Well 80% of us are not getting enough of this major power house. And, raise your hand here, if the answer is yes, you drink coffee, or have an adult beverage on a semi regular basis? Both coffee and alcohol reduces the amount of Magnesium that can be absorbed. Our body can not even utilise what we are minimally, putting in it. Our typical diet is pretty lacking in veggies these days. How about helping ourselves out here, and consider adding healthy food options like vegetables. Let's start with a dark green salad, or a handful of sunflower seeds or almonds.
Magnesium is the most prolific mineral in the body. It is responsible for over 400 biochemical functions though out our day. Starting with:
1. This mineral is essential to our energy, as well as balancing our hormone health. While we have a drop of estrogen and progesterone, it works to the best of his ability to help us feel "normal" by assisting other hormones do their job.
2. Magnesium allows the absorption of calcium, and then helps transport and places that calcium where it is needed. With Magnesium's help, and building, our bones remain strong, and flexible.
3. This mineral also helps maintain a normal electrical flow of nerve impulses to the heart.
4. Magnesium helps with the metabolism of carbohydrates and fats. It also uses the other hormones, like cortisone, and testosterone to give us energy.
5. This mineral is also essential for the activation of B vitamins. These are the ones we spoke of earlier, dark green leafy vegetables, legumes, nuts and seeds.
6. And magnesium is essential for kidney and liver function. That is why, when we have a glass of wine, or a cocktail, we hinder the work that magnesium is doing.
7. This mineral also assists in the production of key brain chemicals.
So, what did we learn? I think it is pretty obvious that the 80% statistic is very telling, and we are not eating enough salads and vegetables. And we would probably feel much better if we kept that in mind. Help yourself, and your magnesium today, hear that little voice in your head that says, "Eat your veggies."
Corby Campbell Shields
Co-Author Menopause Master Plan
http://www.menopausemasterplan.com/

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