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    The Best Foods for Fertility and 3 Popular Diets that Could Be Detrimental

    by Alexandria DeVito Apr 29, 2019 4 minutes
    The Best Foods for Fertility and 3 Popular Diets that Could Be Detrimental, by Alexandria DeVito. Photograph of healthy foods by Brooke Lark
    Photograph by Brooke Lark

    Diet plays an important role in fertility. Here’s a closer look at 3 diets that may be detrimental to becoming pregnant, and foods that can help.

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    Just as we may adopt different fashion styles during different phases of our life, we should also consider adopting different dietary approaches based on our life stage. What’s appropriate for one stage of your life may not be appropriate for others… a truth that applies to many of the popular dietary trends out there when it comes to the pre-pregnancy and pregnancy periods.

    Let’s look at 3 diets that may seem healthy, but are, in fact, not the most ‘fertility friendly’:

    1. Low-Fat Diets 

    Dietary fat has been maligned in

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