A recent study conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health indicates that one way to lower the risk of infertility in women might be having more ice cream. Incredible as that sounds, these findings published in the Human Reproduction journal suggest that a diet rich in ice cream or any other kind of high-fat dairy foods may increase the chances of conception.
The study found that women who had at least two or more low-fat dairy foods were twice as likely to have trouble conceiving due to problems with lack of ovulation while women who had at least one high-fat diary food were 27 percent less likely to have problems in conceiving. Researchers, caution, however, that these findings should be taken with more than a pinch of salt. It does not mean that women having infertility problems should start having three ice creams a day, stresses Dr. Jorge Chavarro, a research fellow at Harvard. Instead he says:
But it is certainly possible to have a healthy diet with low saturated fat intake by having one serving of high-fat dairy a day.
Others are more skeptical. Dr. Patrick Remington, a University of Wisconsin-Madison epidemiologist, wonders about the validity of the study itself pointing out that that the research does not apply to most causes that result in infertility. There appear to be far too many factors that contribute to a woman’s risk of infertility and isolating any one of them is highly improbable, experts state. Factors such as weight, exercise levels or a poor diet are also partly to blame.
Via: Yahoo News