According to new research published February 28 in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal, Human Reproduction, women trying to conceive should drink whole fat milk and eat ice cream instead of going for low-fat dairy products like skimmed milk and yoghurt.

A low-fat dairy diet and has been found to increase the risk of infertility due to lack of ovulation (anovulatory infertility). The presence of a fat-soluble substance (which improves ovarian function) might explain the lower risk of infertility from high-fat dairy foods.

Their study showed that if women ate two or more servings of low-fat dairy foods a day, they increased their risk of ovulation-related infertility by more than four fifths (85%) compared to women who ate less than one serving of low-fat dairy food a week.

On the other hand, if women ate at least one serving of high-fat dairy food a day, they reduced their risk of anovulatory infertility by more than a quarter (27%) compared to women who consumed one or fewer high-fat dairy serving a week.

Find more details from the full report.