Karen
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From: "Karen" <kmegrant@...>
To: <OASIS-L@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 8:42 PM
Subject: [O] Low-Fat Dairy Foods May Boost Infertility Risk


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> Wednesday, February 28, 2007; 12:00 AM
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> WEDNESDAY, Feb. 28 (HealthDay News) -- High-fat dairy foods such as
> ice
> cream and whole fat milk may be better choices for women who are
> trying
> to get pregnant than low-fat dairy products such as yogurt and skim
> milk, a U.S. study suggests.
>
> The eight-year study of 18,555 women, ages 24 to 42, found that those
> who ate two or more servings of low-fat dairy products a week were 85
> percent more likely to experience ovulation-related infertility than
> women who ate less than one serving of low-fat dairy products a week.
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> Women who ate at least one serving of high-fat dairy food a week
> were 27
> percent less likely to experience ovulation-related infertility than
> those who ate one serving or less of high-fat diary food a week.
>
> The findings are published in the Feb. 28 issue of the journalHuman
> Reproduction.
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> High-fat dairy foods may decrease the risk of infertility because
> they
> contain a fat-soluble substance that improves ovarian function, the
> study authors said.
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> Further research is needed to confirm or refute this link between
> low-fat dairy products and ovulation-related (anovulatory)
> infertility,
> noted study lead author Dr. Jorge Chavarro, a research fellow in the
> department of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health in
> Boston.
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> "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,"
> Chavarro said in a prepared statement.
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> Until further research findings become available, Chavarro said women
> who are trying to get pregnant should eat high-fat dairy products but
> switch back to low-fat dairy foods once they do conceive.
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> More information
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> The U.S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development has
> more about fertility and infertility
> <http://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/infertility_fertility.cfm> .
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> SOURCE: European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology, news
> release, Feb. 27, 2007
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