Ice cream as fertility aid? Experts skeptical

Women usually try to limit ice cream to their diet. But not any more. When doctors discovered that ice cream could aid fertility, many women have added it to their diet. A diet rich in ice cream and other high fat dairy foods may lower a risk of one type of infertility. It sounds too good to be true and probably is, some doctors say. Researchers found that women who ate two or more low fat dairy products a day were nearly as twice as likely to have trouble conceiving because of lack of ovulation than women who ate less than one serving of such foods a week. "The idea is not to go crazy and start to have ice cream three times a day," said the lead author, Dr. Jorge Chavarro, a research fellow at Harvard. "But it is certainly possible to have a healthy diet with low saturated fat intake by having one serving of high-fat dairy a day." The new research doesn't even apply to most cases of female infertility. Not ovulating is to blame only one-third of the time. I thought that this article was very interesting. I also found it hard to believe that ice cream could aid fertility. I wondered how they found that out. This article had to do with science because of the scientific research and the health part of this article.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/02/27/ice.cream.fertility.ap/index.html