An article in Newsweek, re: a new book. Actually touches on a concept that I hardly ever see in any mainstream press: Certain dietary restrictions that are good for some conditions (e.g. heart disease) are not good for other conditions (e.g. ovulatory infertility).
What’s that? You mean there isn’t a perfect diet that everybody ought to be eating? BBBBBBBut…. the food pyramid! It’s so… monumental! Sigh.
If you know me, you know I believe in butterfat for women of childbearing age (and women at risk of osteoporosis… and children…). How nice to see it getting some attention:
The more low-fat dairy products in a woman’s diet, the more likely she was to have had trouble getting pregnant. The more full-fat dairy products in a woman’s diet, the less likely she was to have had problems getting pregnant.
I thought I detected a little sleight-of-hand re: saturated fat, as in "hey, the data seems to indicate that saturated fat is good for fertility too… but we can’t have you eating more of that stuff, now, can we? so we’ll just pretend it’s about fat and not saturated fat, and emphasize that you should eat enough healthy unsaturated fat…" It was a bit hard to tell, though.
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