 Eating Meat Shown to lessen Fertility In Women
Source: Kevin Hill for Vitalchild.com Date: 04/07/08
Women who are accustomed to saying, "Where's the Beef" at dinner time might want to change that to, "hold the beef" if they are trying to get pregnant.
A
new joint study was conducted on ovulatory fertility from The Harvard
School of Public Health, Channing Laboratory and Bringham and Women's
Hospital.
The work, published in the February 2008 issue of The
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, concluded that women
were much less likely to get pregnant eating animal protein versus
protein from vegetable sources.
The
scientists evaluated the protein intake of 18,555 married women without
a history of infertility who were attempting pregnancy over an 8 year
period. The study, funded by a grant from the National Institute of
Health, was designed to evaluate whether the intake of protein from
animal and vegetable origin is associated with ovulatory infertility.
438 women reported ovulatory infertility. After adjusting for a variety
of risk factors, the study concluded that consuming just 5% of total
energy intake as vegetable protein rather than animal protein was
associated with a more than 50% lower risk of ovulatory infertility.
So what was the conclusion of the scientists in the study?: Replacing
animal sources of protein with vegetable sources of protein may reduce
ovulatory infertility risk.
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Volume 198, Issue 2, February 2008, Pages 210.e1-210.e7
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