PCOS Diet Book: How you can use the nutritional approach to deal with polycystic ovary syndrome
The nutritional answer for all women sufferers of polycystic ovary syndrome, a condition which affects one in ten womenHaving established herself as the authority on PCOS Colette Harris now provides a practical plan for sufferers of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome with the ‘PCOS Diet Book’. The book explains how – with the right nutritional approach – you can lose weight, improve your skin, aid fertility and overcome exhaustion, depression and mood swings.Various diets to suit each individual, accessible explanations of nutritional science and hormonal health, combined with an emphasis upon personal and emotional well-being make this title essential reading for all PCOS sufferers.
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THE PCOS DIET BOOK
HOW YOU CAN USE
THE NUTRITIONAL APPROACH
TO DEAL WITH
POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME
Colette Harris
and Theresa Cheung
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Contents
Part 1 Nutritional Healing for PCOS – Laying the Foundations
Chapter 1 Why Food is so Important for Women with PCOS
Chapter 3 The PCOS Detox Boost
Chapter 4 Your Sample Menu and Recipes
Chapter 5 Fine-tuning Your Diet to Beat PCOS Symptoms
Chapter 7 Losing Weight – Breaking the PCOS Cycle
Chapter 8 A to Z of Useful Supplements and How to Use Them
Part 3 Prepare for Success: Motivation, Support and a Healthy Attitude to Food
Chapter 9 Getting Motivated for Change
Chapter 10 Set Yourself Up for Success
Chapter 11 Healing Your Emotional Relationship with Food
Chapter 12 Support and Information: Useful Addresses and Websites
We now know that PCOS is a common condition that must have plagued women for generations. Only a decade ago it was barely recognized by medical practitioners, and most women would have suffered their symptoms in silence. At last, with greater understanding of its underlying causes, PCOS is now being taken seriously. Much of the credit for greater public awareness in the UK goes to Colette Harris and her previous book PCOS: A Woman’s Guide to Dealing with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and for her tireless support for Verity, the PCOS support group.
As a scientist, nutritionist and medical herbalist I am impressed by how far Colette Harris and Theresa Francis-Cheung have delved into the scientific and medical literature to review what is currently known about PCOS and its treatment. In this book they present the information in an easy-to-read form, together with the voices of PCOS sufferers, with whom many women will identify. Sufferers can now see a rational basis for their diverse symptoms, founded on poor utilization of insulin. For example, this new concept goes a long way to explain why weight loss is so difficult for women with PCOS.
But help is at hand!
This book is full of tips on diet and lifestyle changes that can help the body to use insulin more efficiently. It shows how the vicious cycle of weight gain, with increasing difficulty of weight loss, can be broken, and that the debilitating and embarrassing signs and symptoms of PCOS really can disappear.
There is no doubt that, both from clinical data and from my own experience as a practitioner, switching to a healthy diet and adopting a healthy lifestyle would make a huge difference to the well-being of many people in the Western world. However, even with due attention to diet, many women do not reach their recommended target intakes for vitamins and minerals while on weight-reducing regimes. This is the dilemma faced by many women with PCOS, and is where nutrient supplements can be so very helpful. While they should never be a substitute for healthy eating, vitamin and mineral nutrition supplements can be used in conjunction with a good diet to ensure optimal nutrition of the key organs of the body involved in hormone balance.
