Excess Weight Linked to Infertility

Recent studies have added one more problem to the ones originated by overweight - and well you might have guessed it: infertility. Doctors have found that patients in fertility treatments, find more difficult to get pregnant if they have excess weight. They recommend always losing weight, if you want to get pregnant.

"That association is pretty well established," said Dr. Roger Lobo, a reproductive endocrinologist at Columbia University. Heavy women often don't ovulate normally because their hormones are out of whack. If they lose just 5 percent of their body weight, he said, "some will ovulate and even get pregnant with no further intervention."

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