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The High Cost of Confusion - Wait for Harvard or Have a Baby
Source: Julia Indichova Date: 1/24/08
Follow up to: Expert has concerns about "The Fertility Diet" book

Research by Author Julia Indichova Suggests that Misleading Conclusions of Harvard Fertility Study Might Cause More Harm than Good

No backdrop reveals the high cost of confusion as clearly as the emotionally

charged world of baby making.

In 1994, author Julia Indichova gave birth to a healthy baby girl, in
direct contradiction to all that medical dogma of the day declared
possible. Library Journal hailed her first book Inconceivable (Doubleday
2001) as "an important consumer health resource ... the first such book
written from the patient's point of view." In the last fifteen years,
Indichova's commitment to share her experience brought forth an original
mind-body program, documented in her second book The Fertile Female (Adell
Press 2007).

    While a diet overhaul was an important piece of Julia Indichova's
repair regime, commenting on The Fertility Diet (McGraw Hill, 2007), she
notes, "I was lucky that this book was not in print at the time of my own
diagnosis. Otherwise, I too might have been tempted to follow it." On
Monday, January 21, a study in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
linking caffeine and miscarriages validates Ms. Indichova's concerns.

    Indichova, who has spent over a decade and a half observing the effect
of simple, healthy eating habits on fertility, is concerned that regardless
of the well-founded critical points being made in such venues as The New
York Times, the fact that the Harvard name is linked with the book will
prevent readers from questioning its conclusions as they should.

    "Several of the recommendations," she notes, "can be dangerously
confusing to women at risk for reproductive difficulties."

    Consider the following guidelines in The Fertility Diet followed by
Julia Indichova's comments:

    "Choosing whole fat milk and ice cream as a preventative for ovulatory
disorders?" Dairy products can in some women in fact deplete ovarian
reserve, and further impair endocrine function. (Cramer et al., 1994,
139(3):282-9)

    "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." In fact, even small
amounts of caffeine daily have been linked to higher miscarriage rates,
poor nutrient assimilation, excessive urinary excretion of magnesium and
calcium - essential nutrients for maintaining a healthy pregnancy. (Bolumar
et al.,1997, 145(4):324-34)

    "Don't turn up your nose on tofu and soy milk." 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.

    The central piece of The Fertile Heart (TM) Ovum Process mind-body
program is strengthening each individual's "inner authority." The work
includes resolving inner conflicts through imagery, movement, language, and
through understanding the role of food as an agent of physical and
emotional change.

    In a recent interview, the Harvard team has promised to conduct a
follow- up study to "test the diet in a more scientifically rigorous
manner."

    "A woman wishing for a child can choose to wait for the next study. But
when it comes to something as dynamic as a human organism," says Indichova,
"as complex as food, and as mysterious as creating a life, nothing can
equal the value of doing your own thinking and the solid science of direct
observation."

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    link to video:
    http://fertileheart.com/workshops_details.php?aid=91&secid=4&contid=3
    link to relevant studies:
    http://fertileheart.com/research_studies.php
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