This time recent research has shown a high intake of vitamin D could lower your risk of early menopause. And that means you get to keep all those healthy hormones flowing through your body longer, decreasing your risk of heart disease and osteoporosis.
In a recent study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Harvard researchers found women in the Nurse’s Health Study with the highest intake of dietary vitamin D had a 17 per cent lower risk of early menopause compared to those with the lowest intake.
There was also a strong association between lower risk and getting vitamin D from dairy foods with study participants that met the recommended calcium intake for healthy bones also having a lower risk of early menopause.
Our main source of vitamin D is still exposure to sunlight, with most adults getting about 10 per cent of their daily requirement from foods such as fatty fish (tuna, mackerel and salmon), cheese and egg yolks.
So for a healthy mix take your cheese plate out into the afternoon sun and relax!
(For more great health tips, take a look out the Oct/Nov issue of Prevention)
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