Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition with licensed nutritionists and dietitians from nutritional weight and wellness.

We explain the connection between what you eat and how you feel.

Stay tuned for practical real-life solutions for healthier living through real food nutrition.

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Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition.

This is brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness.

My name is Kara Carper.

I have a master's degree in holistic health, and I've also been a licensed

nutritionist for 10 years. And you've probably heard us many times on dishing up nutrition

say food matters. Today, we want to help you understand just how much food does matter when it

comes to fertility. And frankly, how healthy you are prior to becoming pregnant really matters.

We also understand that your nutritional status will determine how quickly you can become

pregnant and it's definitely going to determine the health of your baby.

So what you're eating day in and day out is going to influence your health.

You know, food matters because it affects the fertility of women and men.

People often think, you know, it's just the female that needs to focus on nutrition.

But a few years ago, I remember when I was in my master's program and taking a course, one of my

instructors mentioned a saying by Anne Wigmore. She was one of the first holistic health

practitioners. And this is a quote by her. She said, the food you eat can be either the safest and

most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.

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