Fat, Carbs and the Science of Conception

The comment about carbs is very biased. For years I exercised moderately, watched my calories, and limited my fats. I kept gaining weight. i did the Atkins in 2003 and dropped 50lbs. I have been on a later stage Atkins since and have kept the weight off. My HDLs are thru the roof, and my Trigycerides dropped from 200 to 25 and my overal cholesterol stabized at 210. Atkine was right. period....

I'm also a PCOS sufferer. I got myself on a healthy diet, eating only whole grains and cutting out the "bad carbs" like potatoes and white pastas and rices. No processed sugars, or anything of that sort. Lost almost 100 pounds a couple of years ago, and got pregnant the first month I started trying. I firmly believe that it is all in the diet. All of my PCOS symptoms faded, and I had no troubles after that.

I suffered from PCOS for years. I was a milk drinker, up to 1/2 gal a day. I read an article about the hormones being given to cows and stopped drinking milk not realizing when I switched to soy I'd get pregnant in three months, and I did after 17 years of marriage, we conceived three months after I began drinking soy and stopping all cow milk. My cycles are normal now, my weight has leveled and I had my tubes tied to stop getting pregnant. My first child by the way took eight years to come via IVF -- all the rest came very quickly naturally. And they say there's no difference in the milk that's treated and untreated... un-huh, whatever.

The truth is that no matter what kind of PCOS you have maintaining a healthy weight and a low glycemic load diet is a good step. The other side of it is that it is absolutly necessary for any insulin or hormone involved PCOS and can even upon returning to a healthy weight and maintaining medications, effect for all intents and purposes a cure.

What I've heard before is that protein taking 3 days to digest and breaking down into toxins is mostly myth and that the seed of truth in it is for those who have abnormally slow digestion or intestinal movement. The reality is that if your in good health and your digestive track is in good health and you get an adequate amount of fiber all foods are out of your body in about 15 hours.

What about covariates? People who eat different foods might also behave differently -- many things go in to making babiesl.

women who have PCOS also have an increased risk of infertility problems- no matter what they eat. you touched on this with the male hormones but included them in your totally unscientific study - if you have this wrong I can only imagine what else you have sensationalized. Sorry, Newsweek - normally I love you but in this case you clearly didn't look into everything... not even close.

this is the wrong notion that every dieter should avoid carbohydrates. because carb diets are readily digestible and therefore expelled in a day after consuming. rather than proteins wherein it stays in the body for three days or more because it is not digested easily. so we have a hard time expelling it and sometimes worse than that it is the toxin supplier to our body. isn't it?