What foods affect your period?

before you get your period, it's good to cut on the sodium ( salt) because sodium retains water.. so if you try to cut down on the salt, you will tend to bloat less. also try to decrease the caffeine, caffeine constricts blood vessels and can make you have more cramps..

 

ok being a british chinese and scientist i tend not to take wat my mum says about food and period seriously i.e. not eating citrus or cold stuff. But, i do know i shouldnt drink coffee or alchol cos they are dehydrating and tend to give me excruciating period pains, i also shd avoid bread or wheat based stuff cos they giv me really bad trapped wind during my period. That said, i knw i shd avoid these things but its these i tend to crave during that time.....

 

i think it depends on the person....cuz my mom always tells me not to drink/ eat cold stuff...

at the beginning it helped a little bit...but then it didnt make any difference...

 

pigs liver and ginger soup is supposed to be good.
fizzy drinks and water melon are supposed to be bad for you and cold drinks.

 

fizzy drinks are bad for u usually anyway lol.

 

I have heard warm-milk affect the period. But I reckon the mood you are in affect it more. If you are stressed, the period might be a little irregular.

 

okay.. so the point is.. don't eat cold food,or anything lerng, which is what my "mammi" tells me too. but what exactly will happen if you do? cause for me there's no difference .. ><

 

i just learned from my friend (who's pre-med) that drinking green tea will help you have shorter periods

 

ice cream or any kind of cold food will affect a female's period

 

I try to avoid cold things (been told to, don't know why) and I find that chocolate helps me.

 

i ate watermelon once during my period it made me bleed more and longer, Same with green bean sweet soup. So no "lung" (cold) food.

 

carbonated drinks makes it heavier...but lighter the next day

 

A week prior to your monthly friend. I believe that you totally crave junk food. Ice cream is the best.

 

yeah ice cream is the best =)

 

i'm chinese and my mom told me when i first got my period don't eat watermelon, ice cream, lettuce, and shouldn't drink carbonated drinks like soda, and don't drink coffee. i read an article in the newspaper once that eating chocolate helps ease the cramps b/c of the pheromones in the chocolate so i tried it and it does work so when i get my period i eat chocolate to ease the cramps...

 

I think everything is edible but just don't eat too much of 1 kind of food. and no cold drinks for sure. esp. ice-cream. and heat pad helps!

 

I´ve never heard of that and I´m chinese..