Trans Fats and Fertility

[saia11]

I just read this yesterday in my new Vegetarian Times magazine and wanted to let everyone who is TTC know about this. I think we all know that trans fats are bad for us, but most of us aren't as vigilant as we might be, especially since manufacturer's now list trans fat amounts on the label and they are able to list "0" when there are still trans fats in the food, just less than 1 gram. What really struck me was that it could affect you fertility by 70% to 100%!

Here are several links to sources:

http://www.webmd.com/content/article/131/118026.htm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/li...ily.html?in_article_id=430111&in_page_id=1799

You can google it for a whole bunch more hits from news/med sources.

Pretty scary stuff

Mattea

 

[Calee]

Hello Mattea,
Thanks for the link. It's surprising that trans fat can affect fertility that much!

 

[saia11]

Hi Calee,

I know, I was shocked when I read this. Just another reason to hurry up and get this out of our foods. Who knows the poor people whose fertility is being affected by this and have no idea.

Mattea