Abstract
In Caucasian women, the length of the menstrual cycle is 28 days with a SD of 3.9 days. Many factors including diet modify menstrual periodicity. We have determined the effect of a meatless vegetarian diet in Caucasian women on the length of the menstrual cycle and the episodic and luteinizing releasing hormone-stimulated release of luteinizing hormone. The effect of a Western diet on the menstrual cycle in urban Black South African women was also studied. In Caucasian women, the vegetarian diet decreased (p ≤ 0.01) the pituitary response to luteinizing releasing hormone and decreased (p ≤ 0.05) the episodic release of luteinizing hormone. A Western diet increased (p ≤ 0.01) the duration of the follicular phase in Black South African women. Thus diet is a factor modifying the episodic release of gonadotropins and follicular maturation.
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