Fat and Fertile Quotes

“The first proposition, that “IVF is Futile of Obese Women” Brown states that “it seems unlikely to be appropriate to describe IVF treatments as futile in obese women” due to the fact that “analysis of a large sample of cycles in North America showed live birth artesian morbidly obese women (those with a BMI over 35) were not much lower than in women in the healthy weight range (26.% as opposed to 31.4%).”
― Nicola Salmon, Fat and Fertile: How to get pregnant in a bigger body

“In 2010 S. Pandey et al. wrote a debate brief for Human Reproduction looking at the arguments for denying access to fertility treatment based on BMI.[7]  They concluded that all the arguments used for excluding women based on their BMI had a poor quality of evidence to back them up.”
― Nicola Salmon, Fat and Fertile: How to get pregnant in a bigger body

“Show me a study where a majority of subjects succeeded at the amount of weight loss you are suggesting. Do thin people get this health problem? What do you recommend for them? Please provide me with evidence based medicine and the opportunity for informed consent”
― Nicola Salmon, Fat and Fertile: How to get pregnant in a bigger body