Eating ice cream, avoiding skim milk could be beneficial to conceiving a baby? This sounds like a study that many women could jump on board with. With a small amount of cost and trauma. If I told my husband that ice cream consumption would help with his part in conception, I’d be scared to think how far he would go to help out!
The researchers found that women who ate two or more servings of low-fat dairy foods per day, particularly skim milk and yogurt, increased their risk of ovulation-related infertility by more 85 percent compared with women who ate less than one serving of low-fat dairy food per week.
“The opposite was true for full-fat dairy foods, particularly whole milk,” Chavarro told Reuters Health. Women who ate at least one serving of high-fat dairy food daily reduced their risk of ovulation-related infertility by 27 percent compared to women who ate one or fewer high-fat dairy servings per week.
In “specific foods” analyses, the researchers observed that women who ate ice cream two or more times per week had a 38 percent lower risk of ovulation-related infertility compared to women who ate ice cream less than once a week.
Now I wonder about women like me, who are lactose intolerant and also do not care for ice cream. Or the women who only eat soy milk and soy products. But considering the other things that I tried to help with conception and carrying of our children, this one seems pretty simple. And inexpensive. And very accessible. But then again, I didn’t suffer from ovulation related infertility. To see the whole article on whole fats, click on Whole fat milk products.
If I was a spokesperson for Ben and Jerry’s I’d be jumping on this study for advertising purposes. Maybe even come up with a fertility related ice cream along with catchy title as well.
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