| The fact that you are not pregnant, although you | | | | Check with your doctor or a nutritionist to determine |
| have been trying, does not necessarily mean that | | | | the correct diet for your particular condition. Tests |
| there is an infertility problem. Remember timing is | | | | are available to see what you are lacking in vitamins |
| everything. But one of the ways to help reduce the | | | | and minerals. Make the necessary improvements as |
| risk of infertility is to take some precautions. | | | | part of your goal to get to your ideal weight. This |
| The first step is to make sure that your overall | | | | process will, if done correctly, allow you to maintain |
| health is at its peak. That statement sounds vague, | | | | perfect health for your entire lifetime. Good habits |
| but the reality is that you can reach optimum health | | | | never fail. |
| without going through torture. We're not talking | | | | Gaining or losing weight is the positive aspects of |
| Olympic athletes but rather the normal health for | | | | avoiding infertility problems. You also need to reduce |
| your age and height - the two factors that you | | | | the negative aspects of good health: smoking, |
| cannot control. If you are overweight (there are | | | | alcohol, drugs - commonly referred to as SAD. Unless |
| guidelines available that will show you the averages | | | | you were born and raised in a closet on your aunt's |
| for your age and height) then you already know that | | | | farm, you already know that SAD is bad for your |
| you need to lose a few pounds or more. The | | | | health. What you may not have known is that they |
| guidelines will give you an ideal weight to set as your | | | | are really bad for your chances of becoming |
| goal. | | | | pregnant and even worse for the fetus when you |
| If, on the other hand, you are too thin, then adding | | | | do become pregnant. But it's not just a problem for |
| some weight will bring you closer to the averages | | | | the fetus, SAD use can have adverse affects that |
| that are necessary to avoid infertility. Even though | | | | last the lifetime of your newborn. Do you really want |
| the advertisers promote the fact that women can | | | | to bring an unhealthy child into the world? Of course |
| never be "too thin", using models who are so thin | | | | not. Knowing that should be incentive enough, but if |
| that there almost see-through, the truth is that being | | | | it's not then think of the cost over the next 40 |
| close to starvation is very unhealthy. | | | | years of taking care of a child that is unhealthy due |
| Losing or gaining weight for the purposes of | | | | to your indulgences now. |
| becoming pregnant also means eating the right | | | | Finding out the ways to avoid infertility is just part of |
| balance of protein, carbohydrates and fats. Just | | | | the equation. The more details you know about |
| adding weigh for the sake of getting to your ideal | | | | infertility's causes, the easier it is to overcome the |
| weight will not show much benefit if your missing the | | | | problem and concentrate on becoming a mother to a |
| proper mix of nutrients for the fetus to survive. | | | | healthy baby. |