This may come across as one of those 'Cut Out Your Flab With One Simple Tip' adverts that appear on Google (do they ever work???) but it really isn't...
I am, shall we say, a certain age now where hot flushes and uncomfortably hot nights had become the norm - but I've found a way of stopping both. I know - how mad is that? So I thought I'd pass it on in the hope that it may help somebody else...
After a particularly lovely holiday this summer eating and drinking more than I should, I came home feeling somewhat, um, flabby and decided to cut out sugar for a couple of weeks... Not that I was ever a sugar freak, but I did drink a lot of Lucozade for energy. After a couple of weeks the flab hadn't really moved (sigh) but then I realised both the hot flushes and the night sweats had stopped. Really! They didn't re-appear and gradually I relaxed a bit so that over the next couple of months the sugary stuff crept back into my diet - and so did the symptoms. In order to prove it wasn't just a fluke, I cut out sugar again. With exactly the same result.
So there it is - hopefully a Fabulously Useful tip for anybody else around the same age!
