June 26, 2009, Newsletter Issue #173: Low carb diets and irregular periods
Tip of the Week
There's no clinical evidence that low carb diet by themselves cause irregular periods. Quite to the contrary, women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome reported that their irregular periods normalized on low carb diets.
However, if a low carb diet is being combined with severe calorie limitation and/or a very rapid weight loss occurs, irregular periods are not uncommon, but this is not diet-specific and is due to the starvation mode that can happen on any diet resulting in fat loss beyond a certain healthy limit
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