Gallery: Your Period Totally Sucks. How Your Diet Can Make It Better.

Periods are a fact of life. No matter how much you may dread that time of the month, look on the bright side. If you’re having yours on a regular basis, your body is working just as it should.

That’s not to say that the week that it comes isn’t super annoying (and that’s putting it mildly)! There’s cramping, bloating, cravings, fatigue and (ugh), you’ve got to pull out your ugly panties.

But did you know that you can make some of your period symptoms less traumatic if you simply watch what you eat? That’s not to say that food is a “miracle period cure”. But what we can promise you is the following foods have been scientifically proven to make your period suck a whole lot less.