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"March is National Nutrition Month. If you're trying to conceive, you may have questions about fertile friendly foods. To begin with, aside from what we likely know about eating, can food make a real difference with infertility?
Foods to Avoid to Increase Fertility
What we know to avoid to have a healthy pregnancy and baby:
- Eating highly processed foods
- Foods that have a high sugar content
- Artificial sweeteners
- Foods that are loaded with sodium
- Foods that have too much fat
- Eliminating all good fats
- Eating too few calories or too many
- Empty carbohydrates
What you eat, what you do, what choices you make, will all affect your pregnancy and the baby you are hoping to have. We want to help you make the best choices possible.
Learning to eat in a more fertility nutrition friendly way is simple with fertility nutritionist Carolyn Gundell, MS from Reproductive Medicine Associates of Connecticut (RMACT) to guide us. To start us off right, here's information that can guide you in how to cook a grain that may be unfamiliar to you. Keep in mind, if you've tried quinoa before and haven't liked it, trying it prepared in a different way may make all the difference. It's heart and fertility healthy enough to deserve a second chance! Quinoa is even gluten free, high in protein and folate and low on the glycemic index.
Fertility Secrets of Whole Grains: A Quinoa Primer
Are you bored with your selection of whole grains?
Are you eating the same whole wheat toast, whole wheat pasta and brown rice day after day? Have you tried quinoa or other whole grains such as bulgur, buckwheat, millet, farro, barley, or steel cut oats? Have you purchased quinoa and now you are staring at it in your cabinet with no idea how to cook it?..."
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