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ForwardSymposium Session: Menopause, Diet, and Lifestyle Approaches, Challenges, and Evidence-Based Solutions
Menopause represents a major metabolic transition, and women can live between 30% and 40% of of their lives after menopause occurs. Despite its prevalence, many patients are unprepared for the metabolic, hormonal, and lifestyle changes that begin in the menopause transition and may significantly affect their long-term health.
This session will explore what is known about metabolic changes through the menopause transition and examine how coordinated diet and lifestyle strategies may support women navigate this complex phase of life. Topics covered include weight gain and strategies for managing, indications for dietary supplementation, and evidence-based dietary patterns associated with better brain and bone health and lower risk of chronic disease through the menopause transition and beyond. Participants will also consider how coordinated care between physicians and registered dietitians can support comprehensive, patient-centered management of metabolic health during the menopause transition.
This is not a webinar or course for purchase - this is a module for credit claiming for our 2026 Spring Symposium attendees and cannot be purchased or taken by non-attendees. These sessions are exclusive to our Symposium; however, the topics may be revisited in the future in the form of a webinar or self-study course.
Learning Objectives
After completing this continuing education activity, health care professionals will be better able to:
- Describe the metabolic changes that contribute to body changes in the perimenopausal years and their implications on diet and lifestyle counseling.
- Evaluate the evidence supporting various dietary and lifestyle approaches for managing menopause symptoms and changes that affect the risk of chronic disease.
- Apply medical nutrition therapy approaches when counseling those in the peri- and post-menopausal years.
- Collaborate with other healthcare team members, to develop coordinated nutrition and lifestyle strategies that support metabolic health during menopause transition.
- Explain the complexity of physiologic and environmental influences on the common occurrence of weight gain through the menopause transition.
Additional Information
Hillary Wright, MEd, RDN, LDN, is a registered dietitian with an undergraduate degree in Human Nutrition from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, a master's degree in health education from Boston University, and over 30 years’ experience as a nutrition educator, writer and consultant. As the Director of Nutrition for The Wellness Center at Boston IVF, Hillary specializes in women’s health issues, including diet and lifestyle management of polycystic ovary syndrome, fertility, diabetes prevention, diet and lifestyle support during and after cancer treatment, and support through the menopause transition and beyond. Hillary also works part time as a Senior Nutritionist at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA where she provides care for patients during and after the cancer treatment experience.
Hillary is the author of two books, The PCOS Diet Plan: A Natural Approach to Health for Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, and The Prediabetes Diet Plan: How to Reverse Prediabetes and Prevent Diabetes through Healthy Eating and Exercise, and co-author of The Menopause Diet Plan: A Natural Guide to Managing Hormones, Health and Happiness. In addition, Hillary consults to corporations and technology startups, providing guidance on patient and consumer needs and experiences related to the wide variety of apps and tools available to support behavior change.
Disclosures:
Hillary Wright, MEd, RDN, LDN, faculty for this event, has received speaking honoraria from Theralogix. All relevant financial relationships listed for this individual have been mitigated.
The planners of this educational activity have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
An “ineligible company” includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
In support of improving patient care, Great Valley Publishing Company is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
This activity will also award credit for dietetics (CDR CPEU).
Dietitians:
This activity will also award 1.5 CDR CPEU credits for dietetics. Completion of this RD/DTR profession specific or IPCE activity awards CPEUs (One IPCE credit = One CPEU). If the activity is dietetics-related but not targeted to RDs or DTRs, CPEUs may be claimed which are commensurate with participation in contact hours (One 60-minute hour = 1 CPEU).
RDs and DTRs are to select activity type 102 in their Activity Log. Sphere and Competency selection is at the learner's discretion.
Physicians:
Great Valley Publishing designates this live material for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit (s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Interprofessional:
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 1.5 IPCE credits for learning and change.
Available Credit
- 1.25 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.