Call for fertility ban for obese
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Very obese women should be denied access to fertility treatment, experts are recommending.
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NEW YORK  - The lining of the uterus or "endometrium" appears to play a small but significant role in reducing fertility among women who are overweight, Spanish researchers report.
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Men who weigh too much are more likely to have poor sperm quality, research on nearly 1,600 young Danish men has found. Being too thin is a problem, too.
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Traditionally drug use, alcohol, smoking and obesity have been credited with lowering male sperm counts and increasing the risk of infertility.
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Radical international agricultural reform to cut down on the production of oils, fat and sugar -- not diet tricks -- is needed to halt the global obesity epidemic, scientists have warned.
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Being overweight negatively affects fertility in both men and women, according to two recently released studies, the AP/Yahoo! News reports.
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A diet rich on low-fat dairy food may make it harder for some women to conceive, research suggests.
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Being either too thin or too heavy may lower a man&#39;s sperm count, in some cases enough to impair fertility, researchers report.
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As the popularity of stomach surgery has skyrocketed among obese adults, a growing number of doctors are asking, "Why not children, too?"
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Women expecting to have children in their late thirties or forties should freeze their eggs if they want to boost the odds, a British fertility expert said.
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An appetite-curbing hormone that failed to live up to its early buzz as a possible key to slowing obesity is now being probed as a potential aid for women who suffer from infertility and eating disorders.
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Overweight women have a greater chance of becoming pregnant because their Pill has failed, research finds.
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Malaysia's health minister called Monday for a ban on fast-food commercials during children's television programmes to control rising obesity.
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The government is looking into calls to lift a ban on creating embryos from dying children to aid key research.
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Research from Australia in this weekâs issue of THE LANCET suggests that tall girls given oestrogen therapy in adolescence to reduce adult height are more likely to experience later fertility problems than the general population.
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BOSTON - An appetite-curbing hormone that failed to live up to its early buzz as a possible key to slowing obesity is now being probed as a potential aid for women who suffer from infertility and eating disorders.   "This represents essentially a new era for leptin," said Dr...
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Women who are overweight or obese have a much higher chance of becoming pregnant because their Pill has failed, researchers have found.