Maintain Healthy Weight for Ideal Fertility

Although super skinny celebs are quite influential when it comes to defining beauty and looks, experts say they aren't the best models for ideal health.

Along with being scary slim, celebrities have recently been shown maintaining this stick thin figure before, during and after pregnancy.

A new study shows that this new trend, (inappropriately coined "mommyrexia") not only increases the risk of pregnancy complications and premature birth, but also might affect infertility too.

After examining more than 2,000 IVF cycles of varying body weights, scientists found that underweight women had the smallest chance of becoming pregnant, even when compared to women living with obesity.

This is a major finding because these weight issues were a problem with infertility treatments, as well as natural conception, which suggests that average weight (with a little extra curves) is ideal for women's health, especially before and during pregnancy.

To learn more, read the full article: The Skinny on Infertility - Why a Healthy Weight is Ideal for Pregnancy

Guys, Want to Improve Your Sperm Quality?

Many bad habits and lifestyle choices are synonymous with a laundry list of health problems. Obesity, poor diet, and tobacco use are commonly linked to cancer, heart disease and death; but did you know that these also contribute to male infertility?

Male infertility factors are to blame for about 30 percent of infertility cases, and many times, poor lifestyle choices are the main culprit.

Luckily, by making some simple changes, a healthier lifestyle can give you healthier, higher-quality sperm.

However, if it's too late, there are also many infertility treatments especially designed to treat male infertility.

To learn more, read the full article: Is Infertility in Your Future?

Gender Selection and Diet: Does it Really Work?

When you first become pregnant, everybody asks, "Is it a boy or a girl?"

While there are gender selection technologies available through infertility treatments like IVF, what if you could eat your way to a certain gender?

Some people claim that it works like a charm. Eating things like cheeseburgers and yogurt can give you a boy, and tofu and lean meats can give you a girl.

While it does sound like a whole bunch of hype, many couples swear by this technique, but experts still place focus on an overall healthy diet; which should be priority during every pregnancy.

Read more about gender diets and healthy eating during pregnancy: Gender Selection - Do Gender Diets Really Work?