Food For Fertility

Just as it is necessary to know what is the best time to conceive and what is your fertility time it is also necessary to eat healthy and nutritious food to make your body healthy and fit to conceive. Encouraging fertility food is an essential step towards planning a healthy pregnancy and conceiving. A diet, which is rich of minerals and vitamins, is what you need to continue during planning to conceive and also throughout your pregnancy. Thus boost fibre-rich, low-fat vegetables and grains, and pass on fatty, cholesterol-laden meat and dairy products. It is well established that a vegetarian diet fosters weight loss, protects our heart and bones, and provides an abundance of cancer-fighting antioxidants and encourages fertility.

Food that will improve ovulation:

A surprising number of women lose their chance to conceive because they simply do not ovulate regularly. A change in diet may help. The power of vegetables, grains, fruits, and balanced diet is enormous and will help you ovulate and thus conceiving will be possible. Eliminating animal products and keeping vegetable oils low help you avoid dramatic swings in the amount of estrogens that will not be possible if you continue with fatty diet. The fibre in plant foods whisks excess estrogens safely out of the body. Thus have as much green leafy vegetables as possible, have lots of fruits and cut down on chocolates, sugar, oily food, dairy products and meat.

Dairy Products cause infertility:

Dairy products contain lactose, which must be broken down into two simple sugars-glucose and galactose - during digestion. Studies suggest that galactose is toxic to ovaries. Compounding the problem, some women have low levels of the enzyme needed to break apart this sugar, and galactose builds up dangerously. Thus skip the milk, ice cream, cottage cheese, and especially the yogurt, which is loaded with galactose. There is plenty of highly absorbable calcium in green leafy vegetables, beans, enriched flour, and fortified juices. Thus substitute your daily intake of calcium by consuming green leafy vegetable, beans and if required calcium supplements.

Balance your Hormone:
It is also necessary that you balance your hormone levels during conceiving. Following chart will help you balance your hormone levels.

Food Choices for Optimal Hormone Balance:

• Whole grains - pasta, rice, bread, cereal, oatmeal
• Vegetables - carrots, sweet potatoes, spinach, cabbage, broccoli etc
• Legumes - chickpeas, lentils, peas, soybeans, black beans, other sprouts
• Fruits - apples, mangoes, bananas, peaches, pears
  
  Avoid: Animal products (meat, eggs, and dairy), added oils, sugar and fatty foods.