Archive for the ‘Pregnancy’ Category

Diet Record Book / Diet Diary / Food Diary: Free Download

October 4, 2008

Below is a Free Diet Record Sheet (aka Diet Diary). It is an incredibly valuable tool to use whether your goal is to prevent/cure disease, lose fat, or put on muscle (I would say one these three options covers over 99% of people who go to a nutritionist).

It is one I use when working with clients, and is far superior to any others I have seen. The reason is because it is extensive. Trying to formulate a plan for a client and having important data missing is frustrating. This Diet Record Sheet ensures that everything that needs to be recorded is recorded.

I have included the 3-day version, but if you are doing a longer record then you can simply print out more days.

Free Diet Record Book – Click Here

Remember filling this out is only the first step. Having your diet analysed and interpreted by a qualified person is the next…

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High energy intake means more chance of having a boy

April 23, 2008

Want to have a boy?

Forget about having to eat certain magic foods, having sex at a particular time or in a certain position. New research out today indicates the chance of having a boy is higher if the mother’s energy intake before and during the early stages of pregnancy is high. This has been shown before in animals, but not in humans.

I suppose this could lead to a whole bunch of son-craving males force-feeding their partners!

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Alcohol and Pregnancy

November 19, 2007

Is binge drinking bad for your unborn baby?

Yes.

But is it any worse than regular heavy drinking?

Probably not. At least recent research in this area suggest not.

The problem this topic faces in the future is the totally unethical nature of designing a study to test the effects of regular vs binge drinking on the health of a baby.

I can just see it:

“Sign up now to test the effects of regular heavy drinking on your baby”

I doubt anyone will be rushing to sign up for this kind of study.

Instead they have to rely on retrospective data, which has problems (such as peoples ability to recall accurately how much they drank and when).

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Fertility Diet

November 11, 2007

There was some recent good news for those trying to get pregnant: You can boost your chances by what you eat.

The striking thing is that after 8 years following over 17,000 women, the advice the authors of the study give are not groundbreaking when compared to commonplace nutritional advice. But this is a good thing. Imagine if they found it was good to drink alcohol, animal fat, and refined sugars if you were trying to get pregnant?

Their advice:

  • higher consumption of mono-unsaturated fat than trans
  • vegetable protein rather than animal protein
  • low GI carbohydrate
  • moderate consumption of high fat dairy
  • iron from plants and supplements
  • multi-vitamin

The multi-vitamin one is one close to my heart. I suspect this is valuable because other aspects of the subjects diet are deficient. Still, they did not find this, and it seems multi-vitamins still act as a safety net in case your vitamin and mineral intake is no good.

Out of interest, olive oil, avocados and canola oil are high in mono-unsaturated fat.

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Rewards outweigh risks for pregnant mothers eating fish

October 6, 2007

Have you ever heard you should limit your fish intake due to Mercury content? Especially while pregnant?

Recently a group of US experts got together and studied the available data on this very topic. They found that there are in fact no cases of fetal mercury toxicity ever reported!

They recommend pregnant women to eat at least 340g of fish or seafood a week. They state the potential risks of doing so are far outweighed by the rewards the baby will receive.

The only word of caution that should have gone with this advice: The study was at least partially funded by the ‘seafood industry trade group’. Interesting.

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