Eating Ice Cream and Other High-fat Dairy Foods Can Help Women get Pregnant?

A study shows that women who ate at least one fatty dairy food a day were 27 % less likely to have a trouble conceiving than women who ate two or more low-fat dairy products a day. Eating ice cream and other high-fat dairy foods may lower the risk of one type of infertility, the study suggests. Eating ice cream may help women get pregnant.

This was the findings of well-known Nurses Health Study at the Harvard School of Public Health.

But some doctors say that this study sounds too good to be true and probably is. Even the researchers said that women should not conclude to this results because this study are only based to the reports of what women said they ate over many years.

The study doesn't apply to most cases of female infertility - not ovulating is to blame only one-third of the time.

The Harvard study, funded by the university and a long-running federal study, involved 18,555 women, ages 24 to 42, who became pregnant or tried to from 1991-99. Among them, 3,430 reported infertility, including 2,165 who saw a doctor for it. Of those, 438 said an ovulation problem was to blame.

If women do eat more high-fat dairy foods to try to boost their odds of conceiving, it would be important to cut calories elsewhere to avoid gaining weight, doctors said. They also should switch back to low-fat dairy foods once the baby is born, to limit saturated fats.