For a very long time, scientists and fertility experts believed overweight or obese bodies had a harder time getting or staying pregnant.
Lots of would-be parents went on strict diets or adopted difficult life-style changes in the hopes of achieving and maintaining a healthy pregnancy. And many fertility clinics wouldn't perform IVF until the potential parent's BMI dropped below a specific threshold.
Was it worth it?
Maybe not, say Ruby and Anne. Large-scale, randomized studies seem to show no particular benefit in dropping X% of your body weight.
In this short snack, our experts take a look at some new studies and sum up for us what this new information appears to indicate.
You're going to want to hear this. And if you know someone else who could benefit, we ask that you please share.
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