80: Why Women with PCOS Don't Need to Torture Themselves with Diets

Nutrition Matters Podcast

Paige Smathers

Nutrition, Kids & Family, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2017

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome) is a metabolic and hormonal disorder that, in many cases, wreaks havoc on the entire body. The cause is unknown and the treatments are far from well-established and/or completely grounded in science.

Common advice from medical practitioners is to lose weight. Unfortunately, however well-intentioned the advice may be, the pursuit of weight loss through diets more often than not leads to even more pronounced and worsened disease state in the body. Women with PCOS are in a rock and a hard place: they're told to lose weight to help treat the condition, but attempting weight loss only makes behaviors and mental health worse off than they were initially.

So what should women with PCOS do with their diagnosis? Listen in as I speak with PCOS expert, Julie Duffy Dillon, RD, about what women with PCOS can do to pursue health in the face of their diagnosis.

Links mentioned:

Julie's PCOS and food peace FB group
Julie's PCOS and food peace website

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1:02.3	Hi, everyone. Welcome back to Nutrition Matters podcast. My name is Paige Smathers and I'm your host.
1:07.9	And I'm so excited to bring you this episode all about PCOS and how you really don't
1:13.2	need to torture yourself with diets to treat it, to manage it and to live a happy, healthy life
1:19.3	with a diagnosis of PCOS. If you don't have PCOS, I still think you should listen because
1:25.4	there's so many kernels of amazing truths in what Julie talks about in this episode.
1:30.9	And I think you're going to get a lot out of it no matter who you are and what your background is.
1:36.0	So stay tuned.
1:38.8	So I invited Julie Duffy Dillon to come on this episode, who is a registered dietitian nutritionist
1:44.7	and private practice.
1:46.3	And I've had her on the podcast before where we talked about recognizing disordered eating
1:52.0	in a thin, obsessed world.
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