Not Eating Healthy When Pregnant? How Junk Food Eating Moms Pass It On!You may want to make small changes NOW, because researchers say that food preferences are already being programmed before a child is born, and while you are still breast feeding. If during your pregnancy you had a diet of fries, processed food, donuts, muffins, sweets and soda, your baby will automatically prefer these foods. Children whose mothers eat junk food during pregnancy are already being programmed to: overeat choose an unhealthy diet, and grow obese later in life How did scientists find out about the effects of not eating healthy when pregnant? Scientists already knew that children born to overweight or obese mothers are more likely to be overweight, but now they found that this tendency is already being programmed BEFORE birth. And its not just genetics, according to a study done at the Royal Veterinary College in London England, because researchers showed: A direct link to what the mothers eat and how it affects the children, because the fetuses are already getting used to this junk food BEFORE they are born! Researchers took two groups of pregnant rats and gave one a diet of junk food such as donuts, muffins and sweets and fed the other nutritional pellets. Surprisingly, there was no effect on birth weight. But when the young rats were weaned, the animals whose mothers were NOT eating healthy when pregnant: put on weight more quickly, already had a taste for junk food, and were gorging. The researchers think that these young ones are indulging because they need more sugary foods to activate the pleasure centers in the brain to the same level of satisfaction as the others. (N. Stickland, British Journal of Nutrition, 2007) Healthy Eating when Pregnant & Breast Feeding Are you planning on BREASTFEEDING EXCLUSIVELY FOR 6 MONTHS? Plan on breast feeding EXCLUSIVELY for the first 6 months of your baby's life! The longer you breast feed, the more YOU are protected against diseases like breast cancer and Rheumatoid Arthritis. And with longer breast feeding, your baby will also have a higher IQ, less chance for asthma and allergies, and be protected against future heart disease later in life! Doctors Change the Rules for Breast Feeding Geting Eating Healthy When Pregnant What you eat when you are pregnant will determine what foods your baby will like, and whether it will have a tendency to be overweight. These books can help you started in the right direction: Your 9-Month Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Date! A GUIDE to Healthy Eating During Pregnancy WHAT TO EXPECT: Eating Well When You're Expecting Eating for Pregnancy: An ESSENTIAL GUIDE to Nutrition with Recipes for the Whole Family The PREGNANCY BIBLE: Your Complete Guide to Pregnancy and Early Parenthood Better Healthy Eating When Pregnant Your chances of having a comfortable pregnancy, a safe delivery and a healthy infant are dramatically improved if you are on an excellent diet. There is lots of help in your community for you, your baby and family getting healthy, and heres links about healthy eating aimed at children: Healthy Eating Plan for TODDLERS Eating Healthy Creating Healthy Eating Activities For Kids Giving FAT KIDS A Better Chance Healthy Teen Eating TIPS and TRICKS SUCCESSFUL Healthy Eating ADVICE for KIDS Water Retention - Endema, Hypertension, Diabetes and NutritionMany pregnant women are susceptible to high blood pressure and endema the accumulation of water in the tissues. These can lead to eclampsia which is very serious. Others become diabetic while pregnant.The good news is that endema, high blood pressure and diabetes can be helped with added nutrition. How? Researchers have consistently found glutathione levels of hypertensive pregnant mother to be very low: When pregnancy is complicated by hypertension there is a drop in the antioxidant function of the mother, so that her glutathione are very low. All diabetic patients are also subject to higher levels of free radical production, low glutathione, and as a result, their babies are at higher risk for developmental problems. These conditions can be helped by taking the nutritional pre-cursors for your body to make more glutathione. Taking glutathione pills does not work. 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