Soft Drinks and Fertility

When you are trying to conceive, you should be paying more attention to your diet. One key item to cut out is soft drinks. Drinking soda, particularly if you have it often, can have detrimental effects on your fertility and your health in general. Removing it from your diet is an easy way to improve your health and your fertility.

Sugar

Soft drinks contain more sugar than almost anything else you can eat. A single can contains approximately 10 teaspoons of sugar. This much sugar leads to fluctuations in your blood sugar and hormones. It is also linked to diabetes, obesity, and poor dental health. Drinking so much sugar is a sure way to undermine your general health and your fertility.

Aspartame

Unfortunately, switching to diet soda won’t solve the problem. Diet sodas use aspartame as a sweetener, and aspartame is connected with a number of health problems. Specifically related to fertility and pregnancy, aspartame appears to be linked to infertility and miscarriages.

Obesity

To give yourself the best changes of conceiving and giving birth to a healthy baby, it’s important to be at a healthy weight. If you are overweight or obese, cutting out soft drinks is one of the simplest ways to cut down on excess calories and sugar. You can trade in all of the calories in your daily soda for nutrient-rich foods instead.

Caffeine

The effects of caffeine on fertility are a matter of debate, but a number of studies have suggested that caffeine may lead to irregular hormone levels, which affects your ovulation cycle. Many women limit or entirely cut out caffeine during their pregnancies. Don’t forget that many sodas, such as cola, include caffeine.

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