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STUDIES
Overall, our findings suggest that diet is an effective, acceptable and safe intervention for relieving IR, and professional dietary advice should be offered to all PCOS patients. Based on this review, our results suggest that diet benefits IR and weight management in women with PCOS. The DASH diet and calorie-restricted diets might be the optimal choices for reducing IR and improving weight management. Additionally, the effects were associated with the course of treatment.
Overall, diet is an effective, acceptable and safe intervention, providing options for patients who cannot tolerate the gastrointestinal side effects induced by metformin. However, due to the limited number of studies and the small sample size included, the results should be interpreted with caution.
Food addiction is an emerging area of both clinical and research interest. The current review discussed several definitional and conceptual categorisations that have been put forth to quantify food addiction. However, the YFAS 2·0 concept predominates the literature. Similarly, evidence shows some similarities of food addiction with established eating disorders, particularly BED. Thus, the current review supports two main areas of contention that warrant much more research; considering food addiction as a substance-related addiction or a behavioural-related addiction and if food addiction is distinct from established eating disorders. Further research is needed to continue to delineate and clarify controversies about similarities and differences in food addiction with other concepts and established disorders.
Effect of Diet on Insulin Resistance in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Shang Y, Zhou H, Hu M, Feng H. Effect of Diet on Insulin Resistance in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.
J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2020 Oct 1;105(10):dgaa425. https://doi.org/10.1210/clinem/dgaa425 PMID: 32621748
1193 participants (19 RCTs) were eligible for meta-analysis.
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