Making changes slowly may increase your chances of success in improving your diet permanently. If you re a smoker, quitting as soon as possible is probably the best thing you ll ever do for your heart. Smoking raises blood pressure and narrows the arteries, which increases the risk of a heart attack. You can probably find at least a few of them at your local library. Yoga, biofeedback, meditation, and regular exercise are some practices many people have found helpful with stress management.
Some evidence suggests that the age at which menopause occurs is, in part, genetically determined.
Despite these findings, however, smoking seems to play the greatest role in determining whether a woman will experience menopause earlier or later. For a number of years, it was generally believed that HRT helps prevent heart disease in postmenopausal women. This belief was based at least partially on an analysis of studies from 1970 to 1992. These are lifestyle changes that all of us can make. Another study evaluated heart disease risk factors in postmenopausal women participating in the large Nurses' Health Study.