Eating fruit and veg can boost your FERTILITY.

Men who want to become fathers should eat their greens.

A study has shown that couples who are struggling to conceive eat less fruit and vegetables than people who have just become parents.

And men are particularly lazy at following a healthy diet.

British experts said that most pre-pregnancy advice is aimed at women and as a result men ‘have really missed out on the public health message’.

Around one in seven couples in the UK has trouble conceiving, and although infertility is traditionally thought of as a female issue, the problem is as likely to lie with the man as the woman.

Italian doctors asked 1,134 patients to fill in an extensive questionnaire about their diet and lifestyle.

One third of the men and women were classed as infertile because they had been trying, unsuccessfully, for a baby for a year.

The results showed clear differences between the diets of the two groups, the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology’s annual conference in Lisbon heard.

Some 44 per cent of fertile men ate fruit and veg almost every day, compared to 34 per cent of those whose partners were struggling to conceive.

And 55 per cent of fertile men ate five portions of fruit a week, compared to 46 per cent of those who were infertile.