You may find aches and pains restrict your activities and you don’t recover from injury quite as well as you used to. You may have mild symptoms of menopause and a few women may have more severe symptoms. Your sleep might be affected so you feel tired during the day. Weight gain may still be a problem, particularly around the waist. This increases your risk of diabetes and heart disease. Effort needs to go into protecting your health now.

Fact

Regular physical activity may be as effective as medication for mild depression and low mood.

Health Tips

• Activity
  Low impact and resistance-type activities with weights are particularly helpful, as  is walking.

• Protection
  Start pumping in the antioxidants with lots of fruit and vegetables. Your need for calcium is higher now – aim for three serves of dairy foods per day.

Content created June 2006