Women’s nutrition: Five healthiest foods to add to your diet

(Luke Coutinho/ The Free Press Journal) — Unlike their male counterparts, women have a different set of nutritional requirements. Their biological needs vary with their menstrual cycles, various stages of life (menarche, pregnancy, menopause), vitamin deficiencies, hormonal changes, and so on.

For a woman, her diet depends on her physical activities, metabolism, body type, and goals with a higher need for minerals and vitamins while ensuring the intake of iron and folic acid is maintained.

Let us look at five of the healthiest food items that a woman can consume as part of nutrition that provides proper nourishment and balance to her body: (…)