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High fruit diet could help women conceive, study suggests
Women who ate more fruit got pregnant more quickly Credit:
James MacDonald Bloomberg
Eating plenty of fruit could help women conceive, a new study suggests.
Researchers who looked at more than 5,500 women from Britain,
Ireland, Australia and New Zealand found those who consumed the least
fruit were 50 per cent more likely to be infertile.
And compared to women who ate fruit three or more times a day in the
month before conception, women who ate fruit less than one to three
times a month took half a month longer to become pregnant.
Similarly, compared to women who never or rarely ate fast food, women
who consumed fast food four or more times a week took nearly a month
longer to become pregnant. Their risk of infertility also doubled from
eight to 16 per cent.
However the amount of green leafy vegetables and fish made no difference to conception times.
Professor Claire Roberts, of the University of Adelaide, Australia,
who led the study, said: "These findings show that eating a good quality
diet that includes fruit and minimising fast food consumption improves
fertility and reduces the time it takes to get pregnant."
First author, Dr Jessica Grieger, post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Adelaide,
added: "We recommend that women who want to become pregnant should
align their dietary intakes towards national dietary recommendations for
pregnancy.
“Our data show that frequent consumption of fast foods delays time to pregnancy."
Previous research has focussed on the role that diet plays in women
diagnosed with or receiving treatment for infertility however the impact
of diet before conception for the general population has not been
widely studied.
For the study pregnant women were surveyed by midwives on how long it
had taken them to become pregnant, as well as their intake of fruit,
and fast foods such as burgers, pizza, fried chicken and chips.
Dr Grieger said: "Most of the women did not have a history of infertility.
“We adjusted the relationships with pre-pregnancy diet to take
account of several factors known to increase the risk of infertility,
including elevated body mass index [BMI] and maternal age, smoking and
alcohol intake.
“As diet is a modifiable factor, our findings underscore the
importance of considering preconception diet to support timely
conception for women planning pregnancy."
The research was published in the journal Human Reproduction.
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