American research has found that exercise can help to lessen some symptoms of menopause, although it cannot remedy hot flushes.

Pennsylvanian researchers discovered that physical activity can assist post-menopausal women in coping with anxiety, stress and depression. Study author Deborah Nelson, a professor of public health and obstetrics and gynaecology at Temple University in Philadelphia, said that the eight-year study, which commenced in 1996, found that increased levels of exercise correlated with results showing decreased levels of stress; ‘The level of anxiety, stress and depression were significantly lower among physically active, postmenopausal women compared to postmenopausal women in the lowest level of physical activity’.

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