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The Fertility Diet 
| 80% Recommended by our customers. Publisher: McGraw-Hill Catalog: Book Release date: 2007-11-07 Media: Hardcover Number of pages: 304 Ean: 9780071494793 Book Isbn: 0071494790  Tip: compare prices with similar booksAuthors:
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Could having the occasional small bowl of ice cream lead to a midnight craving for pickles and ice cream? It's common knowledge that diet and exercise have profound effects on your health. Can they affect your ability to get pregnant, too? Until now, the answer to that question was a qualified "Maybe." Today, it's "Yes!" thanks to exciting findings from a landmark long-term study of female nurses. As described in The Fertility Diet, ten simple changes in diet and activity can have profound effects on fertility. You can increase your chances of getting pregnant with such simple strategies as:
The Nurses' Health Study exhaustively examined the effects of diet and other lifestyle changes on fertility among nearly 20,000 female nurses. It scrutinized everything from alcohol to vitamins. In plain language, two of the study's lead researchers translate its groundbreaking findings into changes you can put into practice today, setting the stage for a healthy pregnancy and forming the foundation for an eating strategy that will serve you well for the rest of your life. The Fertility Diet also offers a week's worth of meal plans and fifteen delicious recipes. |
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 Written on December 13, 2007 Summary: Challenges of infertility I was just wondering if this reviewer-Regina has ever had fertility problems?! I have a medical research background and know the logistics of accurate data, but be put in the situation that you are told you have unexplained infertility and see if you won't look to anything with any hope of help. Besides as obese as our nation is-maybe we should all consider the fertility diet. I think it is a great step to take for everyone and I am excited about getting started for a healthier lifestyle. who knows I might get a baby out of the changes :-)  Written on December 12, 2007 Summary: The most sound nutrition book this year The UnDiet This book is based not only on copious research, but sound nutrition doctrine that's nearly impossible to dismiss. For example, eating a diet higher in fiber and plant-based protein (thus, a diet loaded with healthful phytochemicals and antioxidants) would positively affect circulation and prevent premature aging throughout the body - including the reproductive system. When we look around the world, we see infertility is largely a problem in western countries, and growing at that. In poorer countries, where plant foods are the primary source of protein, not only do we see low rates of infertility, but women are often still conceiving well into their late 40's. I personally love this book. As a nutritionist, I would recommend it to everyone - even people who aren't concerned about their fertility.  Written on December 12, 2007 Summary: Might Cause More Harm than Good In 1992, I was in desperate search of a miracle cure for my furiously rising hormone levels, which - according to a well-documented study - reduced my remaining childbearing years to zero. At the time I was eating close to the recommendations of The Fertility Diet: whole milk products, brown rice, tofu, poultry, nuts and fruit, multigrain bread, an afternoon desert and coffee. Yet there I was, at forty two, going into premature menopause with several endocrinologists proclaiming my "ovulatory infertility" to be beyond repair. One day, in a last-ditch effort to prop up my wilting ovaries, I resolved to raise the bar on my eating habits. The first food I eliminated was dairy. My decision to do so was inspired by my chronic sinus headaches. Several sources indicated a strong correlation between milk products and high levels of congestion. Amazingly, after three dairy-free weeks, my sinus headaches vanished. And eight months later (following a regime of additional diet changes and rigorous self-examination) I conceived a baby girl. After publicly sharing my story, I received hundreds of e-mails from women who emulated my process with similar results. Notably, in 1994, the year of my daughter's birth, a large scale study in the Journal of Epidemiology, surveyed women in over 35 countries, showing that those in countries with the highest milk consumption experienced the sharpest, age-related drop in ovarian reserve. Women between the ages of 35-39 reported the highest rate of declining reproductive function. Some experts proposed that this delayed impact might've been caused by the cumulative toxic effect of galactose on ovarian germ cells. No, not everyone needs to give up dairy to become pregnant. Though a substantial body of clinical research documents the adverse effects of dairy on endocrine and immune health. Overall, for the reader who has not done extensive prior research, many of The Fertility Diet recommendations can be dangerously misleading. Consider this: "It has been hard to keep up with the fortunes of soy over the last decade..." followed by: " don't turn up your nose at tofu... or ignore soy milk..." If you're going to write a book, entitled, The Fertility Diet, you might care to do what it takes to keep up with the fortunes of soy. Women with irregular ovulation might in fact, do best to turn up their noses at tofu and soy milk. Non-fermented soy products have been linked with impaired thyroid function. Not a desirable condition for an aspiring mom. Or here is another equally troubling recommendation: "Drink coffee... and alcohol in moderation...we didn't see any effects on fertility at moderate levels of caffeine intake, which is the equivalent of three to four cups of coffee a day." The interested reader will indeed find a number of sources documenting the adverse affect of caffeine, including higher miscarriage rates, increased blood pressure, excessive urinary excretion of magnesium, potassium, and calcium (essential nutrients for maintaining a healthy pregnancy) to name a few. The followers of Dr. Chavarro's guidelines might want to take note of an alarming piece of research* that points toward larger risk of mammary and bladder cancer among coffee drinkers on a high fat diet. And if none of these findings were convincing enough, when attempting to create a most welcoming environment for new life, wouldn't it make more sense to abstain from ingesting a substance that leads to physical dependency serious enough to result in withdrawal symptoms? What about the suggested curative effect of ice-cream and whole-fat-dairy? Tinkering with the natural proportion of elements within a food system has been known to spell trouble. Thus, whole fat foods are for the most part healthier than their low-fat counterparts. But the claim that whole-fat milk products in particular are responsible for reversing ovulatory imbalance is highly misleading. Looking at the original study, one could also easily surmise that women who eat low fat dairy, are likely to be chronic dieters with fluctuations in weight. And such fluctuations have been known to result in impaired hormonal health. The reason that even one serving of low-fat foods is shown to increase the risk, is not the milk, but the fact that it marks a particular personality trait, and relationship to food in general. In the last fourteen years of counseling people with ovulatory issues, I have found that eight out of ten women have digestive difficulties. I wonder about the effect of - a four cheese soufflé, a few cups of coffee, a glass of wine, fruit desserts and nuts and berries for an evening snack, to name but a few suggestions in the back of the book - on an already compromised digestive system. Oh, yes, many readers might miss the irony of the lovely image of two peas in a pod on the jacket of the book. At first I thought it was an odd, but interesting, conscious choice. Until I found them listed in one of the charts without any mention of their damaging effect. Peas, you see, are not quite the libido lifting edibles you want to mix into your husband's, or your own dinner salad. At least not if you're trying to have a baby. They are one of the few vegetables known to have contraceptive properties. By no means do I mean to imply that scientific research is to be dismissed. But in case you're tempted to wait for the Harvard sequel (Dr. Chavarro has assured us that "Plans are underway to conduct a...study to test the diet in a more scientifically rigorous manner") to determine your menu, here is something I learned observing hundreds of people who conceived robust babies, often in direct contradiction of current food science dogma. When it comes to something as dynamic, and mysterious as a human organism, as complex as food, and as miraculous as creating a life, nothing can replace the value of doing your own thinking and the solid science of direct observation. * Int J of Cancer (1983) 32:479-84 Written on December 7, 2007 Summary: Very helpful I've read numerous books on the topic of fertility recently. The Fertility Diet stands out because it presents new information on the link between diet and fertility in a way that makes sense and is easy to apply. I find this book very exciting and think it is going to permanently change the way women who want to conceive think about how they eat. Written on December 7, 2007 Summary: Great advice The Fertility Diet is an invaluable contribution to the literature on infertility. While Drs. Chavarro and make it perfectly clear that the dietary guildelines they put forward will not guarantee that a woman become pregnant, the data that they amassed from the Nurse's Health Study, and the conclusions they came to are truly eye-opening, particularly the difference between low-fat and full-fat dairy consumption, and the importance of balancing carbs and protein. Most importantly, following the advice in this book is virtually free, and has no negative side effects--in fact, for the most part, the nutritional guidelines presented here can set the stage for lifelong healthy eating habits. Highly recommended. |
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