Milk, Ice Cream May Influence Conception
Posted on: Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 18:35 CST
Drinking whole milk and eating ice cream may help women to conceive, but low-fat dairy foods may increase infertility risk, says a U.S. study.
However, lead author Dr. Jorge Chavarro of the Harvard School of Public Health said that given the scarcity of information in this area, it was important that more research should be carried out into the association between low-fat dairy foods and anovulatory infertility in order to confirm or refute the findings.
The study, published in the journal Human Reproduction, shows that if women ate two or more servings of low-fat dairy foods a day, they increased their risk of ovulation-related infertility by more than 85 percent compared to women who ate less than one serving of low-fat dairy food a week.
Clarifying the role of dairy foods intake on fertility is particularly important since the current Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend that adults consume three or more daily servings of low-fat milk or equivalent dairy products: a strategy that may well be deleterious for women planning to become pregnant as it would give them an 85 percent higher risk of anovulatory infertility according to our findings, according to the study authors.
Source: United Press International
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