28 Feb 2007
Eating ice cream may help women to conceive

Ya know, I'm a "high fat" kinda guy: I think low fat dairy is not nearly as good for you as real milk, and generally tend towards as natural a diet as I can get.

But even considering all that, this study is bunk. It's a mathematical mash-up:

...adjusting for various factors such as age, parity, body mass index, total calorie intake, physical activity, smoking, drinking and contraceptive use ...

In other words, they took the data they collected and correlated it against dozens of other studies, using criteria that was derived, in part, from the very studies they're correlating! Be selective about the factors you choose to include, and those you choose to ignore and you could probably prove that women with the letter "A" in their first name have a higher incidence of [fill in your favorite problem].

So let me not be accused of ignoring bullshit research with outcomes I like: despite my preference for real dairy, this is just another Study in Stupidity.

Drinking whole fat milk and eating ice cream appears to be better for women trying to become pregnant than a diet consisting of low-fat dairy products such as skim milk and yogurt, according to new research published in Human Reproduction journal. Researchers in the United States have found a link between a low-fat dairy diet and increased risk of anovulatory infertility.

(link) [EurekAlert!]

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