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Well, apparently without proper food, female athletes may have hormonal imbalance. Eating right is the key to avoid that.. See the following link for more information..

“Research suggests that failure to increase dietary energy intake in compensation for the expenditure of energy during exercise can disrupt the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian (HPO) axis. Exercise training appears to have no suppressive effect on the HPO axis beyond the impact of its strain on energy availability.

“See page 52 of the following e-book..<a href=”http://www.ncaa.org/library/sports_sciences/sports_med_handbook/2005-06/2005-06_sports_medicine_handbook.pdf”>http://www.ncaa.org/library/sports_sciences/sports_med_handbook/2005-06/2005-06_sports_medicine_handbook.pdf</a>’