Todday's Headline: Hot Flashes? Losing weight may help

Hot flashes? Losing weight may help

As the CNN headline news states, losing weight may reduce the symptoms of hot flashes.
"(Health.com) -- Overweight women who experience hot flashes -- the uncomfortable flushing and sweating spells that accompany menopause -- may be able to cool those symptoms by losing weight, a new study suggests. "

That makes a great deal of sense. Anything that calms the body and reduces the demands on it will ease up the hot flashes. This thought did not come from any study, but from personal observation. Even many years after menopause, overeating can cause these sudden hot flashes, or a feeling of extra warmth.

They don't necessarily come in a flash, but one can wake up in the middle of the night and feel overheated. It is then the covers get thrown off, the temperature gets lowered on the thermostat and that is that. System overload is as good a term as any to apply to these early morning heat surges.

After careful observation over a period of time, these nearly always follow after a day of overeating, or a heaping plate for dinner the evening before. During the night when the immune system is attempting to do a little patch work on the body, this overload is probably a deterrent. Just assuming, there is no facts to show this is true, but it is most likely what happens.

Losing weight, for what ever reason, is good for the body. And that is started by not overly indulging in food. That extra that is not immediately utilized for fuel is stored as fat. And as most everyone knows, it clings tenaciously once it is in place among the tissues of the body.