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Your Period Totally Sucks. How Your Diet Can Make It Better.
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Shellie Reneé
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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.

About Shellie Reneé

Just a woman who digs all things relationships. HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS, that is. I've been writing (professionally) for close to 20 years, including having two books published. I'm also a marriage life coach and doula. Sometimes I speak to large audiences or do radio interviews, but usually I'm sitting in my favorite chair, surfin' the 'net and penning stuff that I wish I had read in my early 20s.

Listen, I don't have all the answers, not by a LOOOOONG shot. But whatever I can do to spare folks any heartbreak, bitterness or straight-up drama, I'll devote some keystrokes to doing. 

That's it...in a nutshell. For the most part. Kinda. ;)

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