Program Objectives

1. Partner with allied health professionals and medical professionals to implement intervention strategies that promote primary and secondary prevention of diseases and symptoms associated with menopause in the areas of complementary and alternative medicine.

2. Use educational and motivational strategies to provide program adherence and successful reduction in measurable disease risk factors (i.e. blood pressure monitoring during activity, cholesterol, cardiovision) and post menopausal symptoms.

Program Details and Interventions

Nutrition
· Healthy mature women food templates and online food and nutrient tracking

Exercise
· Prescribed aerobic and resistance training program
· once per week (minimum) monitored resistance and aerobic
· Prescribed home exercising

Medical
· Resting metabolic rate assessment
· Physical exam prior to introduction of program
· Menopausal education package

Program Goal
The primary goal is to alleviate the symptoms of post menopause using a multi-disciplinary approach. It has been suggested that those who exercise regularly throughout life may be physiologically 20 to 30 years younger than those who are sedentary. In postmenopausal women, the effects of regular physical activity include significant beneficial changes in lean soft tissue and fat mass, substantial reductions in the incidence of cardiovascular events, reduced risk of breast cancer, an increase in bone mineral density at the lumbar spine, and substantially lower risk of hip fracture.
This program uses primary prevention interventions and secondary interventions to reduce the incidence of diseases and symptoms associated with post menopause.

Target Population
Every population can benefit from this program; however the primary target population is post menopausal women.