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