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Fertility Diet Book review

Can a diet cure infertility?

Summary:  This book suggests dietary changes that can impact your ovulation, and thus, cure your infertility.  I found that unless you eat unhealthy and are in poor health, there is no such thing as fertility diet.
If you are a couple dealing with infertility, almost everyone is trying to sell you something. All the way from ART (assisted reproductive therapy) to IUI or IVF to a whole array of books, videos, and seminars.

Photo of the cover of the book fertility dietYou can add the book “The Fertility Diet” by Jorge Chavarro, Walter C. Willett, and Patrick J. Skerrett to the same pile of junk.

Before I tell you if this book is worth reading, please remember one thing. Eating right and staying healthy are smart things to do whether you are trying to get pregnant or not. Secondly, while you will see drug addicts, smokers, sick people, and all kinds of (what you might think) undeserving women getting pregnant, it is a fact that a healthy couple is not only more likely to get pregnant (Related:  Pregnancy for obese women) but also have a healthy child.

Having said that, there is no evidence that following a diet can actually help you get pregnant if you are having problems conceiving. The book points out that having a normal BMI and taking supplements like folic acid help, but we have all known it for a long time now. The other important point in the book is related to a healthy heart. No argument there either. Who can dispute the advantage of having a healthy heart?

Unfortunately the book also tends to give credibility to myths like eating whole fat dairy products may be good for raising fertility. If that were true, women in the Orient would not be having babies but we all know how China has a population crisis.

In other words, a book not worth buying, if you are already eating healthy.
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