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Smart Choices: Diet can affect fertility

Catherine McDiarmid-Watt | Sunday, April 22, 2012 | 0 comments

Next week is In-fertility Week. In-fertility affects 1 out of 8 couples. Proper nutrition can greatly increase your odds of getting pregnant. In fact, poor diet and lack of exercise may be the biggest contributor to in-fertility in the US today.

Poor diet and lack of exercise triggers insulin resistance in all of us and this disrupts ovulation, and negatively affects the quality and health of sperm and eggs.

On today's "Smart Choices," our nutrition contributor Hana Feeney stopped by with some foods you can eat to curtail the risk of in-fertility.

Below are her recommendations:

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TODAY'S BOOK SUGGESTION:

Image: Acupuncture and IVF: Increase IVF Success by 40-60%, by Lifang Liang. Publisher: Blue Poppy Press (August 2003)

Acupuncture and IVF: Increase IVF Success by 40-60%
by Lifang Liang

-- The information in this book can increase your success rate with in vitro fertilization (IVF) and other assisted reproductive technologies (ART) by as much as 60%.

Research has shown that acupuncture alone can increase the success rate of IVF by 35%. By also adding Chinese herbal medicine, it is Dr. Lifang Liangs experience that you can almost double that increase.

In this book, Dr. Liang describes her extremely successful step-by-step protocols for combining acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine with IVF.

Whether you are a Western MD specializing in infertility, a Chinese medical practitioner, or a couple experiencing difficulties in conceiving, this book is sure to give you new hope and a new approach to dealing with this all too common and difficult condition.

Paperback: 224 pages
Click to order/for more info: Acupuncture and IVF

Category: Diet, Fertility

About Catherine: I am mom to three grown sons, two grandchildren and two rescue dogs. After years of raising my boys as a single mom, I remarried a wonderful man who had never had a child of his own. Unexpectedly, I found myself pregnant at 49!
Sadly we lost that precious baby at 8 weeks, and decided to try again. Five more losses, turned down for donor egg, foster care and adoption due to my age and losses - we have accepted that there will be no more babies in our house.

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