Low-Fat Dairy: Risk of Infertility? :

Using data from 116,000 US nurses - Harvard researchers have found that women who frequently ate low-fat dairy were 85% more likely to have ovulation problems.

However if eating full-fat dairy foods appeared to cut the risk of this type of infertility.

If the women ate two or more portions of low-fat dairy produce a week, the risk of infertility due to ovulatory failure appeared to be 85% higher.

When women eating two or more portions of full-fat dairy produce such as whole milk or ice cream were compared with those eating one or fewer, they had a 27% lower risk of infertility due to lack of ovulation.

Other scientists disagree.

...other scientists say that the only compelling evidence of a link between diet and infertility involves obesity, which is linked to a significant reduction in the chances of conception.

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