Women's health

Milk It Is For Fertility

Is milk the new Fertility diet?

Eating whole-milk products instead of skim or low-fat ones may decrease the risk for a certain type of infertility.

Scientists found that women who consumed one or more servings of whole-milk products a day were 27 percent less likely to experience infertility caused by a failure to ovulate than those who ate less than one serving a week. At the same time, women who ate two or more servings a day of low-fat dairy food were almost twice as likely to fail to ovulate as women who ate less than one serving a week.

Scientists followed more than 18,000 pre-menopausal women without a history of infertility over eight years. In that time, there were 438 diagnosed cases of infertility because of failure to ovulate. The study appeared Feb. 28 online in Human Reproduction.

The study found that an extra 8-ounce serving of whole milk daily cut the risk of failure to ovulate by more than 50 percent. The effect of eating an extra half-cup of ice cream a day, however, was not significant.

Dr. Jorge E. Chavarro, the lead author and a research fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, said that at least one previous study contradicted his results. “There is as yet no clear picture of the role of dairy food in fertility,” Chavarro said, and he was not prepared to recommend whole-milk foods to women trying to become pregnant.

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