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Obstetrics (Infertility)
Too Much Exercise + Too Little Food = Reproductive Complications
November 13th, 1995
Eating very little while exercising a lot can keep a woman thin, but overdoing it may damage her reproductive ability and her bones, a researcher said recently. The lack of enough available calories to meet a hard-working body's needs sets up a cascade of hormonal changes that results in physical changes similar to those of anorexia, said Ann Loucks, an associate professor of physiology at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Women with this caloric deficit tend to have irregular or missing menstrual cycles, and this could keep them from conceiving, Loucks said. They also can lose bone minerals, which may lead later in life to the brittle-bone disease,...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (1995-11-13)
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