Does your prenatal vitamin and your diet cover your nutrition needs? Journal your eating and compare the label of your prenatal vitamin to the chart below. You also need about 44-60 grams of protein a day (more if you’re breastfeeding), 28-29 grams of fiber and about 64 ounces of fluid. … [Read more…]
What’s in a Prenatal Vitamin? Do I Really Need to Take One?
If you can eat a diet that’s a well-balanced variety of unprocessed or minimally processed foods every day you don’t need to take a prenatal vitamin supplement at all. But not everyone had access to nutritious food on a daily basis, which is why it’s worth considering taking vitamin for nutritional … [Read more…]
Fiber: Your Pregnancy Best Friend
Fiber isn’t considered an essential macronutrient, but it can help your pregnancy experience in some major ways: it helps you digest and feel full, prevents constipation and hemorrhoids, lowers cholesterol and slows down sugar absorption, reducing your risk of diabetes. All plant foods contain some … [Read more…]
Can A Vegan Diet Be Healthy During Pregnancy?
A viral Internet story has ben making the rounds about of Loni Jane Anderson, a 25-year-old pregnant Australian woman on a vegan diet that involves 10 bananas a day and is 80 percent carbs, 10 percent fat and 10 percent protein. Could this possibly be healthy? And could someone overdose on potassium … [Read more…]
Coconut Oil: Fact vs. Fiction
If you spend much time on Facebook or Pinterest you may have seen links to articles touting the healthful properties of coconut oil for everything from diaper rash to weight loss. How much of these claims are true? It’s 100% harmless. FALSE! Allergic reactions to coconut are rare, but they do … [Read more…]