Pregnancy and Nutrition:
Nutrition During Pregnancy, Prenatal Vitamins
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A recent study warns that arsenic exposure from rice was detected in a significant number of pregnant women in the U.S.
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When counseling pregnant women on a healthy diet, most physicians concentrate on education about the B vitamin folate. While fortification with folic acid in the diet has decreased the number of birth defects such as anencephaly and spina bifida, consumption of a single nutrient has not caused all birth defects to completely disappear. Scientists are now examining the quality of the overall pregnancy diet and how nutrients interact with one another to create a healthy baby.
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Women who take multivitamins around the time they conceive have a lower risk of premature birth, preterm labor, or low birth weight, according to a new study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. All these benefits were seen only in women of normal weight, however, and not overweight mothers-to-be.
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Want to give your child a head start to a lifelong love of healthy foods? Start by eating healthfully yourself during pregnancy. New research shows that a baby can taste certain flavors in utero and that this may help shape his or her food preferences later in life.
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Women who take omega 3 supplements during pregnancy may help prevent their babies from catching a cold during their first 6 months of life.
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Women who drink coffee have more trouble getting pregnant compared to women who don't consume caffeine. A newer study shed light on how caffeine affects fertility in women.
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Could the susceptibility to type 2 diabetes begin before birth? The results of a new primate study suggest that mothers who fail to get enough nourishment during pregnancy and breastfeeding consistently have offspring who develop prediabetes before adolescence.
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Women who do not take prenatal vitamins early in their pregnancy are twice as likely to have a child with autism than those who do, say California researchers. This breakthrough could be the key to understanding how autism can be prevented during the prenatal period.
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Mom's who take vitamin D supplements in pregnancy may be protecting their newborns after birth against a potentially fatal respiratory disease called RSV says a new study.
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Poor nutrition during pregnancy can cause DNA changes in a woman’s unborn baby that significantly increases the chances of the child later developing obesity and type 2 diabetes. These changes, researchers found, occur regardless of weight status, making quality of a pregnancy diet just as important as quantity.
