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Eating disorders too may lead to menstrual irregularities: Study

abnormal menstruation often signals eating disordeIt is well known that stress and a change in routine as well as worry can affect a woman’s menstrual cycle. But, at times, correcting all these may not restore the cycle back and this in turn, leads to further worries and tension – only to worsen the cycle.

In that case, just check in once if your diet is in order. Yes, ‘eating disorder’ is another factor that leads to a woman’s tendency to develop irregular menstrual periods.

The three factors that are most strongly associated with menstrual dysfunction are:
a person’s body mass index (BMI),
her calorie intake,
her level of exercise.

Menstrual irregularities, till date, were linked only to ‘anorexia nervosa,’ the only eating disorder subtype. And it is only after the absence of menstrual periods for at least three months, a woman is diagnosed with anorexia nervosa.

But, this is injurious, as missing such periods risk a woman of both osteoporosis as well as fertility impairment.

But, the new study provides you with the opportunity to correct your diet and check out once with the irregularity in your cycles yourself.

Thus, in turn, it reduces the risk of developing the other two diseases – osteoporosis and fertility impairment.

Via: womenshealth

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