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As a part of the Harvard School of Public Health’s Nurses Study, nearly 18,000 women were tracked over 8 years to find a connection between food choices and fertility rates.  Women, who had less ovulation-related infertility, were more likely to have had these dietary practices:

• Used monounsaturated fat, like olive and canola oil, and very little trans fat from processed food
• Got more protein from plants, like beans and nuts, and less from animals
• Got more iron from plants or from supplements and less from animals
• Chose more whole grain carbohydrates and less sugars
• Took a multivitamin with folic acid and other B-vitamins
• Ate more full-fat dairy products like ice cream and whole milk (surprise!)

Read The Fertility Diet by Chavarro, Willett, and Skerrett to learn more