Fertility Foods

I have included an introduction from the Acubalance's website regarding their Fertility Diet below. It is an incredible resource with meal plans, recipes and message boards. It is a great way to help you get started on eating foods that will help improve your fertility. I send my clients there all the time. I highly recommend you check it out.

INTRODUCTION

We have put a lot of energy and resources into creating the Acubalance Fertile Diet. Its inspiration came from years of counseling couples in our clinic on how to eat to optimize their fertility.

While Chinese physicians have been treating infertility with diet for centuries, Western science is just starting to catch up to the significant role that diet plays in the ovulatory causes of infertility. A landmark study published in 2008, based on the Harvard Nurses Study, makes startling connections between diet and conception. As the most comprehensive research to date on diet and fertility, this study associates a slow carb, whole food, mostly plant based diet with a six-fold increase in fertility.

The Acubalance Fertile Diet is an effort to blend the wisdom of Chinese medicine with groundbreaking western research to help women and couples learn what and how to eat to optimize fertility. The diet includes meal plans, recipes, shopping lists, and tips on mindful eating to help you get started.

But before you launch into this diet (or any other), you might want to take a minute to think about the following. Read more at www.acubalance.ca