Weight loss does not improve women's fertility - but it does boost their libido

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Obese women who want to become mothers are told to lose weight to increase their chances of having a baby.
Now new research suggests slimming down helps not because it boosts ovulation, but simply by increasing a woman's sexual appetite.
A team from Penn State College of Medicine studied how weight-loss surgery affected reproductive function in a group of morbidly obese women.
Study leader Dr Richard Legro, said: 'Obesity in women has been linked to lack of ovulation and thus infertility.

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