PCOS-DIET Messages for August, 2002: Re: hypo-caloric diets

Re: hypo-caloric diets

From: Sally (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 2 Aug 2002 23:53:52 -0500 (CDT)

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Hi,

The caloric restriction you are talking about is true - it can result in longer life span and less disease - this is well proven in laboratory animals. However, though the diet is low calorie, it has to be very high nutrition because malnutrition actually will cause disease itself. TO get sufficinet nutrition, you would need to pay very close attention to what you ate and also take supplements.

Also quality of life has to be looked at when one speaks very low calorie diets. If you are hungry all the time then I assume your quality of life may not be so good. Also, if you eat very little, you are not going to have so much energy because your body is instinctively going to try to conserve energy. For humans eating is also a social activity. IF you cut out the eating you will necessarily severely restrict your social activities - unless you and your friends/family can stand to eat when you eat nothing (or a green salad?). Third is how sustainable this diet is? You would have to have phenomenal long term will power - particularly as we all live in consumer society where there are huge amounts of food and images of food being thrust at us all the time. My personal opinion is better to eat healthy and be satisfied than try such a thing.

So it seems that there are some merits and some disadvantages. However, I would think that this hypocaloric diet is still at research stage..... Please approach cautiously. HOwever, really it is up to you.

Best wishes

-- Sally

At Thu, 01 Aug 2002, rosemary wrote: > >There is actually research-mentioned in books by Dr. Andrew Weil-about calorie restriction and its health benefits...including decreased incidence of disease and longer life span. I haven't heard anything about very low cal diets and pcos though.

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