You’ve probably noticed that more and more restaurants are posting the calorie content of menu items on their menus. Some cities and states already require chain restaurants to post this information. Pretty soon, this will be federal requirement, which means that all restaurants in the…
Earlier this month the American Medical Association (AMA) addressed a growing health concern (35% of adults and 17% of children in America are overweight), and voted to classify obesity as a “disease”. Before this new ruling, obesity was considered a “condition”. So what does this…
Are you wondering what all the hype is about the gluten-free diet? People with and without celiac disease have picked up on this trend, and, in some ways, it’s hard not to! Take one look at the magazine covers in the grocery store check-out aisle…
A while back I wrote a blog titled “Pretty Common Ovary Situation”. I was trying to be humorous, but at the same time drive home the message that the name for this collection of symptoms is confusing yet approximately 5 million American women share the…
Happy Eating Disorders Awareness Week! You may be wondering why I’m writing about eating disorders in a PCOS blog entry. Well, it’s because the two conditions actually have a lot of similarities. Although eating disorders are psychological disorders and PCOS is an endocrine disorder, the…
Traditionally, Valentine’s Day is a day to express your love for your significant other. What if this Valentine’s Day you made a declaration to yourself? That’s right, a promise to love your awesome self, PCOS body and all. Most teens (and adult women) I know…
My message today is simple: Don’t diet … at least in the way we traditionally think about dieting. Research studies have shown that, on average, 95 percent of people who lose weight end up regaining this weight (and often more) within 1-5 years. (Although we’re…
The inspiration for this blog entry came from a TV commercial for a furniture store that sells mattresses. So what could an advertisement of this sort possibly have in common with PCOS? Well, the ad begins with a man talking about how we live in…
I came across The Body Love Blog a couple of weeks ago when a bikini photo of a young woman named Stella Boonshoft went viral. The picture was posted with the caption: “WARNING: Picture might be considered obscene because subject is not thin. And we…
It’s 3pm and you’ve just come home from school. Dinner isn’t for a couple of hours, but your stomach is already grumbling. With PCOS, you know it’s important to limit foods such as chips, cookies, and candy to avoid a spike in your insulin levels……