Macros & Calories Don't Count? Better Food Choices Make Diet More Than 10x More Effective for PCOS Sufferers
Normal-weight women can have PCOS, too. Recently, Macruz et al. did DXA scans on young women with PCOS and a normal BMI and found increased truncal and leg fat compared to healthy controls in a similar age (12–39 years) and BMI range (at least 18.5 but below 25 | Macruz. 2017). More evidence that weight alone doesn't explain PCOS. PCOS is by no means an issue only obese women suffer from. Yes, obesity is and will always be the #1 risk factor for developing the polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS = a condition in which a woman's levels of the sex hormones estrogen and progesterone are out of balance; this leads to the growth of ovarian cysts (benign masses on the ovaries); PCOS can cause problems with a women's menstrual cycle, fertility, cardiac function, and appearance), but eventually it seems as if both occurred in response to the same hitherto not fully elucidated triggers. In that, it is unquestionable that a woman's diet plays a minor part in the dev...