by Charlene Smyth | Apr 24, 2014 | Vitamins
Is Vitamin C for Pregnant Women 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...
by Charlene Smyth | Apr 24, 2014 | Nutrition/Weight, Vitamins
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 afterward, that funny...
by Charlene Smyth | Apr 24, 2014 | Vitamins
One of the first things a doctor will prescribe for a newly-pregnant woman is a prenatal multivitamin. In this blog, you will find out the importance of vitamins in pregnancy. Most of the pregnant women do not take vitamins during their pregnancy. Ladies, this...
by Charlene Smyth | Apr 21, 2014 | Nutrition/Weight, Vitamins
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. In this blog, you...
by Kathryn Rally | Mar 24, 2014 | Eating, Nutrition/Weight
Who needs meat for a healthy pregnancy? Not you! It is entirely possible to enjoy a healthy vegetarian pregnancy. In fact, many cultures around the world embrace meat-light or meat-free diets and have perfectly healthy babies. However, it is a...
by Kathryn Rally | Mar 24, 2014 | Eating, Nutrition/Weight
Fruits and vegetables nutrition should be one of the important part of your pregnancy diet. Indeed, fresh fruits and vegetables not only contain a wide variety of vitamins and minerals, but antioxidants, phytochemicals, and fiber as well. As a general...
