healthy eating leads to healthy babies

The latest unhealthy diet fad to hit the United Kingdom is dieting when pregnant. The number of women who are expecting children who continue to diet excessively and dangerously to try and keep in perfect shape throughout their pregnancies is rising.

In the UK this practice has been called pregorexia and has been slammed as very dangerous by doctors and health professionals. Women who are obsessed with their weight try to keep the same weight throughout their pregnancies without taking into consideration that they should be putting on weight as part of the natural process of growing a baby.

Media images which show famous models and actresses who continue to look thin throughout their pregnancies have been blamed for this increase in pregnancy dieting and women must be told that healthy eating is essential for the health of the baby.

Women who do not put on weight during their pregnancies are statistically much more likely to end up with a malnourished and underweight baby which adds to the probability of the baby being born prematurely or suffering from health complications.

Another thing that expectant mothers should be aware of is that what they eat during their pregnancies can affect their children in many ways. One particular study for example shows that women who consume regular amounts of oily fish have children with higher IQ’s than those women who do not.

What is clear is that healthy eating leads to healthy babies and babies born healthy are statistically more likely to stay that way throughout their lives. Mothers should be made aware of the impact that unhealthy eating could have on the long term health of their children.

Expectant mothers should speak to a doctor about what they should and should not eat during their pregnancy term and should never use diet medications like Reductil, Acomplia or Xenical.