Be careful! Diet-induced amenorrhea caused by skinny beauty

　　There is a bad sign recently. Some girls suddenly stop menstruating when they reach the age of seventeen or eighteen after having menarche. Professor Tan Yong, director of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Teaching and Research Office of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, said that the pursuit of "skinny beauty" leads to food loss. amenorrhea There are more and more girls.

　　Professor Tan Yong said that after the menstrual cycle has been established, if menopause occurs for more than 3 consecutive months, it is called "secondary amenorrhea." Amenorrhea is just a symptom. There are many causes of amenorrhea. In the past, it was Uterus Most of the problems are related to women and ovaries, and now, the "skinny amenorrhea" caused by indiscriminately reducing food intake has greatly increased.

　　There is a hypothalamus in the human brain, which contains the feeding center and the satiety center. When people forcefully reduce food, their cerebral cortex will be forcibly suppressed. If things go on like this, the two appetite centers of the hypothalamus will become dysfunctional, causing people to lose weight. It will further affect the luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone secretion center of the hypothalamus, causing its secretion to decrease. This will also reduce the secretion of luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone from the pituitary gland. These two hormones are related to maintaining normal menstruation. Their reduction will lead to amenorrhea. So, female It is necessary to maintain a certain amount of fat and be plump to maintain normal menstruation.

　　Tan Yong said that there is a bad guidance in the current culture, which regards "skinny" as beauty. In fact, "skinny" amenorrhea causes girls to have yellow skin, dry hair, protruding bones and joints, breast dysplasia and blurred female curves. Secondary sexual characteristics are not obvious. Can they still be beautiful? Also, we don’t educate girls well enough about puberty, and many girls still have doubts about normal menstruation and their own healthy There is insufficient understanding of the relationship, and some even think it is "troublesome" and "nothing is better". At this point, we have to learn from developed countries, where girls are very conscious about their normal menstruation and feminine characteristics, and are proud of it.