{"id":3808,"date":"2011-01-08T17:34:37","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T01:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=3808"},"modified":"2011-01-08T17:34:37","modified_gmt":"2011-01-09T01:34:37","slug":"raw-food-diet-stops-menstruation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/08\/raw-food-diet-stops-menstruation\/","title":{"rendered":"Raw Food Diet Stops Menstruation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always thought that a raw food diet was a bit extreme. But I wasn&#8217;t sure if I should admire such people for it or not. Now I know.<\/p>\n<p>According to a study in the <a href=\"http:\/\/content.karger.com\/ProdukteDB\/produkte.asp?Aktion=ShowAbstract&#038;ProduktNr=223977&#038;Ausgabe=224613&#038;ArtikelNr=12770&#038;ContentOnly=false\">Annals of Nutrition &#038; Metabolism 1999;43:69-79 (DOI: 10.1159\/000012770)<\/a>, <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;About 30% of the women under 45 years of age had partial to complete amenorrhea (halting of menstruation); subjects eating high amounts of raw food (> 90%) were affected more frequently than moderate raw food dieters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t menstruate, you can&#8217;t have babies. If you can&#8217;t have babies, you can&#8217;t reproduce. If you can&#8217;t reproduce, your family line ends.<\/p>\n<p>Cooking = good.<\/p>\n<p>via: I heard this correlation in an NPR story and started google scholaring it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always thought that a raw food diet was a bit extreme. But I wasn&#8217;t sure if I should admire such people for it or not. Now I know. According to a study in the Annals of Nutrition &#038; Metabolism 1999;43:69-79 (DOI: 10.1159\/000012770), &#8220;About 30% of the women under 45 years of age had partial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}