How To Cope With Hot Flashes

7. Weight Loss

A 2010 study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine revealed that losing weight could help reduce or eliminate hot flashes. The study tested two hundred and twenty-six overweight or obese women around the age of fifty-three. The women were put on a weight loss program. Results showed that each woman experienced a reduction of hot flashes by about a third for every eleven pounds of weight lost. Results went on to show that the more weight a woman lost, the greater the reduction of hot flashes.