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There’s no denying that food is important. It gives you the energy you need to get through the day, tantalizes you with enjoyable tastes and feeds your body with the essential goodness it needs to work properly.

Study after study proves that good nutrition is the foundation of good health, and the ideal way to stay healthy and fit – whether you have PCOS or not. Everyone should try to eat more fruit and vegetables, reduce their fat intake, eat less high-sugar and high-salt foods and steer clear of the dessert trolley in restaurants. But once you are diagnosed with PCOS and you enter the ‘no woman’s land’ where no one is quite sure what the condition is, what causes it and what is the right way to cure it (see Appendix), the one thing that has been proven time and time again is that a healthy diet is of enormous value.

Food can play an important medical role in helping to deal with PCOS. Many of the symptoms – from weight problems, skin condition and energy levels to menstrual patterns, acne and excess facial and body hair – can all be improved by eating the right foods and, more importantly, by avoiding those which aren’t going to be helpful. With this book you’ll learn how to design a diet that can help you restore blood-sugar levels, balance your hormones, improve energy levels, lose weight and address any PCOS symptoms you may have.

So why is food such a powerful tool when you have PCOS? Why is a healthy diet actually the first essential step – in combination with exercise – to managing the condition, keeping the symptoms at bay and enhancing the effects of any medication you decide to take?

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is a condition caused by hormonal imbalance and insulin resistance which leads to symptoms such as weight gain, excess body hair, acne and irregular or absent periods. (For a fuller description of PCOS as a medical condition, read Appendix.)