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getting ready | food & diet

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Saying bye to soy that has scared woman trying
during conception? to get pregnant even to drink a
glass of soy milk!” she explains,
If you’ve been eating soy foods like soymilk adding, “The answer to this
and tofu for a while now, or even if you’ve question is very simple: There is
recently introduced soy to your diet, you no problem of having a glass of
may be wondering about the impact of it on soy milk or eating tofu as part of
your fertility.We’ve done some research and a healthy diet with variation while
we found that consuming whole soy foods trying to get pregnant or being
doesn’t negatively affect your health. pregnant.” Soy is an excellent
source of protein, especially for
mother, baby & child April 2011 Soy and Fertility of a proper uterus lining,” she vegetarians and people with
says. There are few studies done lactose intolerance or intolerances
Phytoestrogens, defines Dr in the field of soy and fertility, to dairy products. Researchers
Maria Ridao Alonso, Specialist but Dr Alonso asserts that there found female monkeys who took
in Preventative Medicine and is no evidence that the birth soy supplements containing twice
Head of Traditional Chinese rate is lower in countries with the level of the plant estrogens
Medicine and Ozone Therapy high soy consumption, like the eaten by Asian women for a year
in Dubai Herbal and Treatment Asian countries.“Some studies did not experience any negative
Center are the active ingredient did indicate that intake of high changes in their menstrual cycle or
of soy, and they have estrogen- levels of soy (they were talking ovarian function that might affect
like effects in the human about equivalents to 60 grams fertility. “Our results suggest that
body. “Estrogen is the main of soy protein or 45 milligrams a high-soy diet probably won’t
female reproductive hormone, of isoflavones daily for a month) compromise fertility in women,”
necessary for example, for would decrease fertility and says researcher Jay Kaplan,
ovulation and for the buildup PhD, of Wake Forest Baptist
Medical Center, in a news release.
The results of the study were
presented today at the annual
meeting of the American Society
for Reproductive Medicine.

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