As tempting as they are, doughnuts, cookies, coffee cake and the like, contain the “terrible trio” for menopausal women: refined flours, processed fats and sugar. These three “bad guys” worsen a woman’s risk for weight gain, heart disease, osteoporosis, diabetes and cancer—threats that are already on the rise in midlife.
1. Refined flours are like sugar. These flours, like white wheat flour, have had the bran, oil...