Handbook of diet and nutrition in the menstrual cycle periconception and fertility Intro Table of contents Preface Setting the scene 1. Diet and nutrition in fertility: an overview including special requirements with ageing J.H. Ford 2. Fertility in women H. Daabis1 and T.A. Gelbaya2 3. Psychophysiological changes in the menstrual cycle phases M.K.B. Lustyk1 2 E.A. Shilling1 D.L. Reaves1 and C.M. Hokama1 Puberty menarche and the menstrual cycle 4. Age at menarche: international perspectives M. Celik 5. Menarcheal onset and body composition S. Kirchengast 6. Calcium intake and premenstrual syndrome B.B. Takashima Uebelhoer and E.R. Bertone Johnson 7. Diet and eating changes in premenstrual syndrome N. Erbil 8. Vitamin D and other nutrients in the treatment of premenstrual syndrome F. Cioni1 and F. Ferraroni2 9. Perimenstrual chocolate craving: from pharmacology and physiology to cognition and culture J.M. Hormes 10. The influence of body mass index and socioeconomic status on pubertal development A. Bereket and Z. Atay 11. Neuroimaging menstrual cycle associated changes in appetite D.A. Van Vugt and R.L. Reid 12. Fluctuations of appetite and food intake during the menstrual cycle S.A. Tucci 13. Dietary strategies contributing to low energy availability in exercising women: underlying physiology and impact on the menstrual cycle B.R. Hill and N.I. Williams 14. Iodine deficiency: female menstrual cycle to conception F. Vermiglio M. Moleti and F. Trimarchi 15. The menstrual cycle and lipid levels S.L. Mumford K.C. Schliep A. Prasad and E.F. Schisterman 16. Menstrual patterns in adolescents with eating disorders A. Deltsidou Conception 17. Role of micronutrients in the periconceptional period I. Cetin M. Massari and F. Parisi 18. Prevalence and predictors of periconceptional folic acid use R.P. Deane and D.J. Murphy 19. Lower fertility associated with periconceptional obesity and underweight E. Derbyshire 20. Preconception care and barriers to addressing overweight and obesity: a focus on weight loss advice and weight loss strategies M. Dekker Nitert1 H.L. Barrett1 S. de Jersey2 K. Matusiak1 H.D. McIntyre3 and L.K. Callaway1 21. Herbal medicine and fertilisation L. Stocker and Y. Cheong 22. Diet containing endocrine disruptors and reproductive health D. Balabanič1 and A. Krivograd Klemenčič2 23. Anemia Roux en Y gastric bypass and conception R.M.Y. Nomura A.M.K. Igai R. Pulcineli Vieira Francisco and M. Zugaib Fertility infertility 24. Vitamin D and assisted reproductive technology A. Mahdavi1 and H. Hosseini Jadda2 25. The impact of obesity on ovulation and early pregnancy: a focus on ovarian function fertilization implantation and early embryo development A. Gonzalez Bulnes and S. Astiz 26. Nutraceutical approaches in female infertility: setting the rationale for treatments tailored to the patients phenotype and based on selected molecules E. Papaleo V.S. Vanni and M. Candiani 27. Folate and female infertility: folate metabolizing pathway in folliculogenesis infertility treatment and implantation S. Altmäe1 2 M. Laanpere1 C. Campoy2 and A. Salumets1 3 28. Dietary intolerance and endometriosis: an immunological link in the pathogenesis of an enigmatic disease Y. Muscat Baron 29. Gastro intestinal symptoms in women with pelvic endometriosis Y. Muscat Baron 30. The role of vitamin D for conception polycystic ovary syndrome endometriosis and the menstrual cycle M. Grundmann and F. Von Versen Höynck 31. Polycystic ovary syndrome and the metabolic syndrome T.J. Hunter and R. Hart 32. Diabetes mellitus and polycystic ovary syndrome: implications for diet and nutrition N. Mendoza1 and M.J. Cancelo2 33. Hypocaloric diets in overweight and obese patients with polycystic ovary syndrome S. Palomba A. Falbo and G.B. La Sala About the editors Index The reproductive cycle in women is complex and can be considered to begin with epigenetic programming and ending with menopause. Intervening steps involve a variety of processes including the cellular development of the sex organs menarche episodic endocrine cycles menstruation ovulation and conception. These processes can be influenced by diet and nutrition and vice versa. Body composition has an impact on the menstrual cycle and periconception and these factors in turn also influence body composition. Similarly either food deprivation dietary excess or obesity can result in marked changes in the menstrual cycle with a concomitant effect on fertility.This handbook is the first scientific source that provides a comprehensive overview of the relationship of diet and nutrition with puberty menarche and menstrual cycle conception and fertility and infertility. The handbook of diet and nutrition in the menstrual cycle conception and fertility will benefit dieticians nutritionists gynaecologists endocrinologists obstetricians paediatricians and those concerned with womens health in general