Your Health: Women's Triad Disorder

Your Health: Women's Triad Disorder

Triad Disorder refers to 3 inter-related conditions: disordered eating, menstrual disturbances, and bone loss in exercising women. Left unchecked it can have serious health consequences. It can occur in any sport and mostly occurs in sports where leanness and low body weight is emphasized. Proper diet and nutrition, primarily geared toward matching calories expended with calories taken in as food can prevent menstrual disturbances and any impact on bone.

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