Making Peace with Period Cravings
Diabetes Digital Podcast by Food Heaven
Wendy Lopez, Jessica Jones
4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Did you know that it’s normal to crave carbs during your period? In today’s episode, we chat with women's health Dietitian Valerie Agyeman of Flourish Heights about all things menstruation. Tune in to learn if you should eat different things during the various phases of your cycle, dealing with menstruation fatigue and common period myths + facts.
In This Episode We’ll Cover:
- How menstruation impacts the body nutritionally
- Why we crave carbs leading up to our periods
- Nutritional deficiencies that may be caused by menstruation
If we should be eating different things during different menstrual phases - + MORE!
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a deer media production. |
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| 0:38.8 | Hi, I'm Wendy. |
| 0:39.8 | And I'm Jess and you're listening to the FoodHeaven podcast. |
| 0:42.7 | Your online resource for inclusive and accessible wellness. |
| 0:56.8 | Question for everybody who is menstruating. |
| 1:00.6 | What are your experiences with PMS? |
| 1:03.4 | Wendy, I know that you typically go through it during that time of the month. |
| 1:08.6 | We have talked about that extensively. |
| 1:11.2 | I'm sure there's a lot of you who are curious about periods, |
| 1:19.9 | what the nutrition information out there. |
| 1:23.3 | Women's health nutrition, specifically during periods, |
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