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Nutrition for Amenorrhea Nutrition
Dietary Principles:
Make sure you correct dietary deficiencies by eating the 4 basic groups each day and enough calories to maintain a healthy body weight and percentage of body fat. It's important that you maintain at least 22% fat in your diet.
Therapeutic Foods:
Increase foods rich in organic sources of sodium, such as mustard greens, black radishes, apples, saffron, watercress, beets, parsley, artichokes, cherries, grapefruit, parsnips, endive, garlic, onions, chicory, carob, horseradish, kumquats, limes, and quinces.
Also increase foods rich in Iron and Vitamin C, such as citrus fruit, spinach, kale, and other green leafy vegetables.
Eat bland foods; stay away from dishes that are spicy or hot. NOTE: IF YOU CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT SPICE IN YOUR LIFE, LIMIT THE "HOT STUFF" TO SPECIAL OCCASIONS.
Specific Supplements:
Multivitamin/mineral supplement - 1 x day
Vitamin B-complex - 75 mg. or more
Vitamin B12 - 25-100 mcg. 1 x day, sublingual tablets
Vitamin E - 600 I.U. 1 x day; Begin with 200 and build up slowly to 600.
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