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Postmenopause may increase the risk for certain health conditions, including heart disease.

A new study found that eating two servings of mangoes each day may help support postmenopausal heart health by lowering blood pressure and “bad” cholesterol levels.

The researchers also discovered that mangoes caused less blood sugar increase, which lowered quicker a few hours after consumption, when compared to eating plain white bread.

Each year, about 25 million cisgender women around the world experience menopause — a natural stage of life that normally occurs between the ages of 45 and 55, when they stop having a menstrual cycle.

Postmenopause refers to the time period when a person exits menopause and they do not have their menstrual cycle for at least 12 months.

Postmenopause can increase the risk for certain health conditions, including osteoporosis, obesity, depression, metabolic syndrome, and cardiovascular disease .

“Postmenopausal women are one of the least studied groups in the [United States], yet it’s a significant hormonal shift that will impact nearly half of the population,” Robert M. Hackman, PhD, research nutritionist in the Department of Nutrition at the University of California, Davis, told Medical News Today. “As estrogen declines, women face significant changes in heart and metabolic health, like higher blood pressure and cholesterol.”

Hackman is the lead author of a new study recently published in the Journal of the American Nutrition Association — and supported by a research grant from the National Mango Board — that found eating two servings of mangoes each day may help support postmenopausal heart health by lowering blood pressure and “bad” cholesterol levels.