Last month, a respected European reproductive medical journal called Human Reproduction published a study that links a woman's obesity to fertility issues. While other studies have shown a correlation between obesity and fertility issues, this study is the first to link obesity to causing issues with pregnancy when the woman is "subfertile" but ovulating normally.

According to the study, obesity can reduce the odds of conception by 4%, and very obese women were 26 to 43% less likely to ... more