It’s the food, baby.
While shopping the perimeter of the grocery store is an age-old tip to stock up on good-for-you foods, reaching for chips, cookies and soda can be the ultimate comfort habit.
But these and other junk food staples could be messing with women’s chances of trying to have a baby, according to new research from McMaster University.
Countless studies have documented the downsides of ultra-processed foods (UPFs), including but not limited to increased risk of heart attack and stroke, cancer, metabolic syndrome, obesity, dementia and even premature death.
UPFs have also previously been linked to negative effects on men’s fertility, and now another study has noted the effects these supermarket staples have on women’s ability to get pregnant.
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