• Increase the fibre content of your diet by eating 5–6 servings of fresh fruit, vegetables, as well as lentils, beans and whole grains. Fibre, in addition to benefiting the digestive tract, has the ability to bind to oestrogen and encourage its excretion from the body.
• Drink at least 1.5 litres of pure water daily. Water is vital to your whole body and helps eliminate unwanted toxins and waste products.
• Reduce the amount of salt in your diet. This helps against water retention. Include plenty of fruit and vegetables high in potassium such as tomatoes, bananas, citrus fruits and most green leafy vegetables.
• Limit your intake of dairy products. These are full of oestrogenic compounds and other hormones (unless organic) and interfere with magnesium absorption, a mineral many PMS sufferers are found to be deficient in. Try alternatives such as Soya milk, rice milk, nut milks (found in most health food shops. Migros does an organic Soya milk; Coop has a variety of non-dairy milks.)
• Restrict your intake of wheat products, have them once every four days if you cannot avoid them. Wheat is the number 1 food allergen and may be contributing to some of the symptoms suffered by some PMS patients. >>>
  

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