The relationship of diet, inflammation and weight is summarized here: * A diet high in refined carbohydrates and other "fabricated" foods leads to both increased weight and increased inflammation. * Excess weight itself causes...
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The relationship of diet, inflammation and weight is summarized here: * A diet high in refined carbohydrates and other "fabricated" foods leads to both increased weight and increased inflammation. * Excess weight itself causes chronic inflammation. * Chronic inflammation contributes to more insulin resistance, leptin resistance, and other metabolic disorders. It also decreases favorable adiponectin and increases unfavorable resistin. * Insulin resistance and leptin resistance stimulate accumulation of more weight, make weight loss more difficult, and induce hyperandrogenism (excessive levels of male hormones) and other symptoms of PCOS. * The added weight induces more inflammation and thus more insulin and leptin resistance, which in turn prevents you from burning off fat stores, and causes you to store even more fat. Here is the vicious cycle of obesity and leptin resistance: Extra fat produces chronic, low-grade inflammation. The chronic inflammation produces a chronic anti-inflammatory response, led by SOCS molecules. The SOCS response stops leptin from reducing obesity. So weight goes up, which causes more inflammation. And the cycle starts all over again.
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According to new research, high blood sugar from eating sugars and refined carbs results in inflammation for women with PCOS, regardless of whether they are overweight or lean.
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