Are Vitamins for Pregnancy Important? Vitamin C is an “essential” nutrient. “Essential” means that, unlike just about every other living being on the planet, we cannot manufacture our own supply and need to eat foods containing it. Vitamin C, also known as Ascorbic Acid,…
Minerals Nutrition: What About Copper? Remember when you were a kid and you stuck your wet lip onto your popsicle and it froze and left little blood spots behind when you pulled it off? Remember how it tasted when you licked your lip…
One of the first things a doctor will prescribe for a newly-pregnant woman is a prenatal multivitamin and one of the first things too many pregnant women do is not take them. Ladies, this is a serious error in judgment! Really, you should’ve…
We’ve known about the importance of various vitamins to take when pregnant like folic acid, calcium, magnesium, etc, for decades but it’s only just recently that the importance of a relatively unknown nutrient, choline, has come to light. Information is, as yet, sketchy,…
Fried, fatty, and greasy foods The good news is, you’re probably not going to want to eat these anyway but in any case, stay away. The heavy fat in your stomach isn’t going to feel good and the high heat creates compounds that…
For years, dietary fat has been demonized, leading to all kinds of crazy low fat fad diets, such as the Grapefruit Diet. The truth about fat is that without it, we’d be dead. We need fat in our diets to: ・ provide a…
t some ridiculous hour of the morning, your eyes snap open and all you can think about is “It”: the food item or combination of food items you have got to have, right now. You look over at your spouse, dead to the world after a rough day at work and a rougher day riding your mood swings and think …
Vitamin A is vital for normal cellular function, including those involved in eyesight, reproductive functions, and normal development. But when people talk about “vitamin A”, they’re not always talking about the same thing. “Vitamin A” is a term that is used to refer…
You know about the raw meat and the raw egg and the empty calories deal- now we’ll get into the more insidious things for which you need to be alert, things that you might not even have known you were eating but that…
Finally, however, a proper study has been done that has found quite the opposite. Not only is it not dangerous to go on a diet during your pregnancy, but it’s actually beneficial becuase …
