PCOS and Diet

SOP and diet tend to go hand in hand. Many women with PCOS are insulin resistant. This means that their bodies have trouble converting food into energy and produce excess insulin to compensate. One effect of this is for the body to put more weight and slow down the metabolism. The good news is that there are schemes available to help women with PCOS combat insulin resistance and weight loss. The best diet for PCOS is one that encourages foods that release their energy slowly to keep the sugar levels in blood and stable eating insulin. These schemes or types of foods are often referred to as low GI (low glycemic index) or Low-GL (low glycemic load), or it could be called a diabetic diet. The glycemic index was created to show how different foods sugar levels in the blood and affects women with PCOS are encouraged to eat food at the bottom of the index range.


By releasing energy from food slowly to keep your blood sugar in the blood or blood sugar stable and prevent the body to create too much insulin. It makes you feel full longer, it increases your energy levels and prevents the body from storing fat cells excess glucose. Most women with PCOS store their excess weight around your abdomen, which can lead to other health problems such as heart disease.

That is why the low-fat, high-carbohydrate diets, which have so often been recommended in the past are harmful to women with PCOS. You should avoid any diet that does not limit your intake of refined carbohydrates like bread, cookies, pasta, white rice, sugar, cakes and pastries.

Other signs of a good diet for PCOS include avoiding processed foods and eat organic as much as possible, consume vitamins and minerals, and doing regular exercise, strength training, both aerobic and slim.

It is essential to find the right diet to help you lose weight, increase your energy levels, improve your mood and reduce symptoms of PCOS, and change your lifestyle and habits, you will be able to address the most important issue to reduce your risk of developing health problems in the future.