Obesity delays pregnancy
Obesity is always in the news. Check out this post Obesity prompting early puberty in girls by Sarah. Girls who are obese have chances of an earlier puberty. The enriched foods that we have fallen prey too are playing havoc with hormones and children are forced to grow up way before they should.
What about obese couples who want to start a family?Studies have revealed that obesity can come in the way of conception. In case of overweight men, semen quality and levels of reproductive hormones could suffer. Ovulation, conception and early fetal development suffer in an overweight woman. Obese couples have to wait longer to start their families than trimmer couples. Studies were conducted on couples who were already on the way to having a family; so there is no link between sterility and high BMI that has been established.
It’s just another reason for couples to work out and plan dieting regimens together.
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