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Program Your Baby's Health: The Pregnancy Diet for Your Child's Lifelong Well-Being
The most important period of your child's health is the nine months before birth.
Cutting edge research in a new field known as "metabolic programming" reveals a startling new what a mother eats during pregnancy has a far greater effect on her child's future development, overall health, and resistance to disease than was previously thought. In fact, adult chronic illnesses long blamed on an unhealthy lifestyle or genetic influences are now believed to be a direct result of the uterine environment during pregnancy.
Now, thanks to this pioneering new book, you can "program" your baby's future health by eating right, gaining the appropriate amount of weight, and avoiding toxins--starting even before conceiving. Dr. Barbara Luke, a nationally recognized expert in the field of public-health nutrition, provides a complete, practical nutrition and lifestyle program that covers your entire pregnancy, month by month--and the first two years of your baby's life. Here is everything you need to know to raise the healthiest baby possible,
- What to eat when you're trying to conceive and when you are pregnant
- Practical strategies that protect your child against hypertension, diabetes, and obesity
- Special dietary needs for women in every age group, from under 25 to over 40
- Quick, easy menus, helpful charts, and checklists
- Replenishing how much do you need to drink?
- The nutritional needs of mothers carrying twins or "super-twins"
- New strategies for overcoming morning sickness
- Helping your growing child eat right and stay healthy
Pregnancy is your window of opportunity to boost your baby's health at birth, through childhood, and beyond. Let this book help you take the most advanced, scientific approach to preventing disease and optimizing health!
Cutting edge research in a new field known as "metabolic programming" reveals a startling new what a mother eats during pregnancy has a far greater effect on her child's future development, overall health, and resistance to disease than was previously thought. In fact, adult chronic illnesses long blamed on an unhealthy lifestyle or genetic influences are now believed to be a direct result of the uterine environment during pregnancy.
Now, thanks to this pioneering new book, you can "program" your baby's future health by eating right, gaining the appropriate amount of weight, and avoiding toxins--starting even before conceiving. Dr. Barbara Luke, a nationally recognized expert in the field of public-health nutrition, provides a complete, practical nutrition and lifestyle program that covers your entire pregnancy, month by month--and the first two years of your baby's life. Here is everything you need to know to raise the healthiest baby possible,
- What to eat when you're trying to conceive and when you are pregnant
- Practical strategies that protect your child against hypertension, diabetes, and obesity
- Special dietary needs for women in every age group, from under 25 to over 40
- Quick, easy menus, helpful charts, and checklists
- Replenishing how much do you need to drink?
- The nutritional needs of mothers carrying twins or "super-twins"
- New strategies for overcoming morning sickness
- Helping your growing child eat right and stay healthy
Pregnancy is your window of opportunity to boost your baby's health at birth, through childhood, and beyond. Let this book help you take the most advanced, scientific approach to preventing disease and optimizing health!
432 pages, Paperback
First published April 3, 2001
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February 13, 2018
This book was well intentioned but kind of underwhelming. I can summarize it as follows:
1. Here are ALLLLLLL the reasons that prenatal nutrition matters.
2. Here are the things you must get and those you must avoid while pregnant (and they're the same as described in pretty much every other prenatal book).
3. Here are some recipes that have those things you need in them and don't have those things you need to avoid.
I was hoping for some new insights but it seemed to be the same old prenatal nutrition advice just packaged in a different way.
1. Here are ALLLLLLL the reasons that prenatal nutrition matters.
2. Here are the things you must get and those you must avoid while pregnant (and they're the same as described in pretty much every other prenatal book).
3. Here are some recipes that have those things you need in them and don't have those things you need to avoid.
I was hoping for some new insights but it seemed to be the same old prenatal nutrition advice just packaged in a different way.
January 19, 2022
accurate title; generic advice
Lifelong well being is an accurate description. The book spends about 50% talking about your diet pre-pregnancy and during pregnancy and about 50% talking about the importance of your child’s diet throughout their lives. Pretty standard information; the book does discuss what types of foods help to ensure you have enough of different vitamins and minerals, but overall it felt a little lackluster. There are a plethora of recipes in the back.
Lifelong well being is an accurate description. The book spends about 50% talking about your diet pre-pregnancy and during pregnancy and about 50% talking about the importance of your child’s diet throughout their lives. Pretty standard information; the book does discuss what types of foods help to ensure you have enough of different vitamins and minerals, but overall it felt a little lackluster. There are a plethora of recipes in the back.
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