On Feb 23, 2008, at 2:28 am, L wrote:

> There is speculation that a highly refined carbohydrate diet causes  
> PCOS in the offspring of mothers who eat this way.  So in some way  
> the genes are altered for the next generation. However there is no  
> actual research to back this up and the whole issue of insulin  
> resistance is speculative. Whether insulin resistance is a side  
> effect of PCOS or PCOS is a side effect of insuline resistance is  
> one of those things that research has also not been able to  
> establish (to my knowledge anyway).

Does anyone know if PCOS has been observed in hunter-gathered  
communities?  (Or diabetes for that matter, since that's been raised  
too.)  That would go a long way to answering the question.

Ashley