Regina Wilshire, who writes a lovely blog on nutrition, has a review of a recent study on pregnant women in India, and the effect of their diets while pregnant on their children over the first 6 years of life.
The findings: A high folate, low B12 diet, or in lay terms, a high vegetable, low animal product diet while pregnant produces children who by age 6 are both extremely high in Adipose tissue content (not heavy, but with a high percentage of body fat) and who are already at a high stage of insulin resistance (pre-curser to Type 2 diabetes).
read more here.
read the full study here.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Preggers? take note.
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3 comments:
what EXACTLY are you trying to say here????
:P
Today I'm especially glad not to be pregnant because of the rage coursing through my body from reading Ms. Wilshire's Earth Day post and just a few of the comments posted about it! I'd hate to think what THAT would do to a little growing thing. In acupuncture school do they teach you about cultivating the equanimity needed to sift through the straw-man arguments, false accusations, and vitriol that seem to completely overrun the nutrition debate for actual valuable information? :-)
why don't you guys comment on the posts you like??
:p
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