Iron Supplementation Improves Pregnancy Health
Written by Greg Arnold, DC, CSCS. Researchers determined that consumption of iron in pregnant women reduced the risk of having a low birth weight baby and anemia during pregnancy. (more…)
Written by Greg Arnold, DC, CSCS. Researchers determined that consumption of iron in pregnant women reduced the risk of having a low birth weight baby and anemia during pregnancy. (more…)
Written by Greg Arnold, DC, CSCS. In a study of 18,888 Nowegian mothers, this study determined that women who consumed dried fruit had a 21% reduced risk of spontaneous preterm birth. (more…)
Written by Greg Arnold, DC, CSCS. Guinea pigs whose mothers were fed 100mg/kg/food of vitamin C had 14.2% smaller part of the brain involved in memory and learning compared to guinea pig who were fed 900 mg/kg/food of vitamin C during their pregnancy. (more…)
Written by Jessica Patella, ND. Early choline supplementation was associated with better infant brain function. (more…)
Written by Greg Arnold, DC, CSCS. From a total of 117 men, those who ate walnuts had a 3.5 % higher increase in blood levels of omega-6 fats and a 4.5 % higher increase in blood levels of omega-3 fats than the control group. The walnut group also had significant increases of 5.5% in sperm vitality and 5.7% in sperm motility compared to control. (more…)
Written by Greg Arnold, DC, CSCS. Control group was 16% higher in folic acid than mothers with autistic children. (more…)
Written by Greg Arnold, DC, CSCS. In a study of 1250 women with the greatest intakes of omega-3 fats were 32% less likely to have obese children. Mother’s having more than two servings of fish per week decreased the risk of obesity in newborns by 47%. (more…)
By Neil Levin, CCN, DANLA, Nutrition Education Manager. Beyond a prenatal multiple vitamin, read about the vitamins and minerals that pregnant women and nursing mothers may also want to take. (more…)
Written by Jessica Patella, ND. In a study of 448,000 white pregnant women in the South of England, 90% had vitamin D levels below the recommended levels and 28% were seriously deficient. (more…)
Written by Greg Arnold, DC, CSCS. This article discusses gestational diabetes which is an increased intolerance to sugar during pregnancy. (more…)
Written by Greg Arnold, DC, CSCS. Researchers found an 80% increased risk of neural tube defects when choline levels were deficient (< 2.71 millimoles/Liter) and a 60% reduced risk of neural tube defects when choline levels were sufficient (> 3.21 mmol/L). (more…)
Written by Susan Sweeny Johnson, PhD. In a small mouse study, those deficient in omega-3s had 55% more brain shrinkage than those supplemented with omega-3. (more…)
Written by Greg Arnold, DC, CSCS. Newborns from mothers with lowest folic acid blood levels had higher scores related to hyperactivity and peer problems. (more…)
Written by Susan Sweeny Johnson, PhD, Biochem. Decreasing the dietary ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids in 52 mothers during pregnancy and breast-feeding, significantly reduced the incidence of infant food allergy by 13% and infant eczema by 16%. (more…)
Written by Greg Arnold, DC, CSCS. Those supplementing with folic acid for more than a year had a 70% reduced risk of pre-term birth (between 20 and 28 weeks of pregnancy) and a 50% reduced risk of pre-term birth. (more…)
Written by Greg Arnold, DC, CSCS. Women in the group with lower blood levels of vitamin D had double the risk of a C-section delivery. (more…)
Written by Greg Arnold, DC, CSCS. When allergic mothers took probiotics during pregnancy and breast-fed their infants for more than 2.5 months, only 26% of the at-risk infants in the probiotic group were sensitized for allergies while 50% of at-risk infants in the control group were sensitized. (more…)
Written by Greg Arnold, DC, CSCS. An intake of 2.7 grams of Omega 3 per day during the third trimester of pregnancy may reduce the risk of asthma in the offspring by 63%. (more…)
Written by Marcia J. Egles, MD. This study found that 400 micrograms per day of folic acid plus a multivitamin taken during pregnancy reduced the risk of infant cleft lip by 40%. (more…)
Written by Marcia Egles, MD. Calcium supplementation in 8325 women in seven countries, reduced preterm deliveries from 3.8% to 2.4% (by 36%), eclampsia by 32%, and infant deaths by 30%. (more…)