Eat good Eat right for your fertility

By Dr. Shweta Goswami 

I have earlier also talked about the fertility diet but it's not only what you eat for your fertility, but how you eat too is also important. Too many of us are eating too late in the day or when we go to bed at night, we're meant to digest our day, not our dinner. Our lifestyle and health do not support fertility, particularly when we are waiting longer to get pregnant. It is very important to remember that the preparation of food itself is a bit like alchemy. 

Try these simple tips for preparing your food and the results will certainly follow : 

1. Try to make your dishes mainly plant-based, with a little high-quality meat included in your weekly diet. Cook mainly with second-pressed olive oil and use cold-pressed oils to add to food after cooking 

2.  Don't forget your nuts, vegetables and pulses for healthy fibre and limit sugar. 

3.  Remember your bones. Broth is nourishing and soothing to the digestion and has a reputation as a traditional healing food. Fertile contains a recipe for

making your own chicken bone broth, and a section on how to flavour your chicken broth with darkened ginger. 

4. Fermenting preserves seasonal vegetables and increases their nutritional profile, in turn restoring your gut to prime health and improving your mood and sense of wellbeing. Seventy per cent of the serotonin in your body is produced in your gut and food fermented at home has a far wider microbial diversity than shop-bought versions. 

5.  Eat organic where you can. A study published in 2016 by the British Journal of Nutrition found that organic fruits and vegetables can contain as much as 70 per cent more antioxidants than non-organic.