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People experiencing menopause and perimenopause may benefit from taking a holistic approach to their health, including examining what they eat and how it may affect their bodies. Going vegan, eating a low-fat diet, and getting regular exercise can help manage hot flashes, mood swings, unexpected weight gain, and a variety of other symptoms.

Here are three ways going vegan can help you manage menopause.

1. Low-Fat Vegan Meals Are the Secret to Minimizing Hot Flashes and Other Symptoms

According to Neal Barnard, M.D., president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, women in Asia are less likely to suffer from hot flashes, likely because they consume much less meat and animal-derived fat than women who eat standard American diets.

Barnard says that women who eat high-fat foods have more estrogen activity than those who consume low-fat foods. During menopause, when the ovaries’ production of estrogen comes to a halt, women who eat high-fat foods experience a sudden and extreme drop in estrogen levels. This drop seems to be less dramatic—and the resulting symptoms are much milder or nonexistent—for women with lower estrogen levels.

Barnard believes that nonsmokers who eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, limit their salt and caffeine consumption, and get enough vitamin D are less likely to suffer from hot flashes, broken bones, vaginal dryness, and other symptoms of menopause.

2. Vegan Foods Help Manage Hormonal Weight Gain

Actors Gabrielle Union and Drew Barrymore shared how their bodies were affected by the onset of perimenopause symptoms, including unexpected and rapid weight gain in the stomach caused by the stress hormone cortisol. One solution: ditching dairy and other animal-derived foods.

Going vegan has helped countless people shed excess fat, especially around the midsection, where it can cause the most health problems. The American Heart Association recommends a diet rich in vegetables for managing the increased risk of heart disease that comes with menopause-related abdominal weight gain.

3. You Can Keep Your Bones Healthier With Calcium From Plants

Calcium is a key nutrient for maintaining bone health during and after menopause, when bone density begins to decrease due to lower levels of estrogen. While cow’s milk, cheese, and yogurts have previously been touted as calcium-rich options, studies have shown that dairy may do more harm than good.

A Harvard Nurses’ Health Study found that consuming two or more glasses of cow’s milk daily put people at higher risk for broken hips and arms than those who drank one glass or less per day. If you want to retain the calcium that you consume and keep baby cows with their mothers, try these vegan sources of calcium, which will strengthen your bones, not weaken them the way dairy does.

In addition to the many health benefits of a plant-based diet, going vegan also spares the lives of nearly 200 animals a year. Learn just how easy it is to make the transition by ordering a free vegan starter kit:

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What:             In a dizzying display, PETA supporters wearing monkey masks will descend on Harvard University’s campus tomorrow as “experimenters” in lab coats torment them with strobe lights. The bizarre scene is meant to mimic Harvard experimenter Margaret Livingstone’s latest cruel test, in which she permanently separates baby monkeys from their mothers and forces them to wear helmets with shuttered goggles that rapidly open and close, creating a strobe-light effect. The infants are made to wear the devices for a year and a half, effectively forcing them to live in perpetual and disorienting strobe lighting all day long for 18 months

Where:           Johnston Gate (at the intersection of Peabody Street and Massachusetts Avenue), Harvard University, Cambridge

When:             Wednesday, January 24, 12 noon

“Livingstone’s pointless experiments have never produced anything other than pain and anguish for the monkeys stolen from their mothers and subjected to her twisted tests,” says PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo. “PETA is urging Harvard to shut down Livingstone’s house of horrors.”

Livingstone’s experiments—which have been widely panned as unethical in the scientific community—have also included ripping baby monkeys away from their mothers and sewing their eyes shut for an entire year. In another experiment, infant monkeys are reared by humans wearing welding masks so they never see a monkey or human face. She also surgically implants electrodes in monkeys’ brains to record how their deprived brain cells respond to visual stimuli. After years of torment, Livingstone kills many of them and dissects their brains. She has conducted these types of curiosity-driven experiments for 40 years without producing a single treatment or cure for humans.

In addition to holding tomorrow’s demonstration, PETA is urging former President Barack Obama to condemn these twisted experiments that have received more than $2 million in taxpayer funds from the National Institutes of Health’s BRAIN Initiative, which was launched during the Obama administration.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits for people who need a lesson in kindness.

For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, or Instagram.

Infant monkeys in Livingstone’s laboratory are torn away from their mothers and raised without seeing any faces—human or monkey—for a full year. Credit: Harvard University Ph.D. Program in Neuroscience

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Carvel is bringing Oatly vegan ice cream to more than 300 of its stores across the U.S. The new oat milk–based options are available in Carvel’s classic soft serve, iconic Flying Saucer Sandwiches, creamy shakes, ice cream scoops, and frozen dessert cakes.

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Flavors include Oatly Strawberry, Chocolate, Mint, and Cold Brew soft serve and Cookies & Cream and Chocolate Peanut Butter scoops. Varieties and availability vary. Check with your local store to see which options are offered near you.

This exciting news follows Carvel’s 2022 launch of oat milk–based ice cream cakes in Publix grocery stores. We’re thrilled that the iconic brand has made additional nondairy options available to its compassionate customers.

Choosing nondairy treats helps spare loving, playful cows, who are used for their milk. Instead of allowing cows to nurse their own babies, the dairy industry tears calves away from their mothers shortly after birth. Then, workers steal their milk so that it can be sold. Leave the milk to the cows, and choose treats that don’t hurt animals.

If there isn’t a Carvel location near you, don’t fret. It’s easier than ever to find vegan scoops and other options at ice cream shops, including Dairy Queen, Ben & Jerry’s, and Baskin-Robbins. Your local grocery chain is also sure to carry a variety of cow-friendly frozen desserts, including pints and ice cream bars and sandwiches.

Going vegan is the best thing you can do for animals, the planet, and your own health. Order a free vegan starter kit to start making the change today:

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