Resources for Nutrition in Pregnancy and Childhood
Childbirth Connection's Nutrition Resource
Planning Pregnancy: NutritionPlanning Pregnancy: Healthy Lifestyle Habits
In our section called The Stages of Pregnancy, we have outlined the planning of your pregnancy, each stage of pregnancy, giving birth, and the early period after birth. This link is devoted to nutrition while planning for your pregnancy.
Resources for Eating Nutritiously During Your Pregnancy
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Eat, Drink and Be Healthy:The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating (2005), by Walter Willet, MD and PJ Skerrett. Willett's book is based on evidence derived almost exclusively from large cohort studies of diet and disease. He has been the architect of several such studies and is a major contributor to what we know about methods of collecting and analyzing data. The central chapters of the book are derived from and explicate the layers of the new pyramid. Central to Willett's recommendations is the control of body weight, in which exercise, rather than caloric restriction, has the primary role. Learn more about Eat, Drink and Be Healthy from Amazon  |
Department of Health and Human Services: Dietary Guidelines for Americans, finding your way to a healthier you
Loma Linda University: School of Allied Health Professionals (PDF), vegetarian food guide, a conceptual framework
Harvard School of Public Health: Department of Nutrition, the Nutrition Source, knowledge for healthy eating
Center for Science In the Public Interest: Health, Nutrition and Diet
Resources for Pregnancy and Nutrition
Vegetarian Society: Pregnancy Information SheetHealth Canada: Nutrition for a Healthy Pregnancy, national guidelines for childbearing years, which covers nutrition, weight and weight gain, vegetarians, adolescence, breastfeeding, active living, food safety and more
The Vegetarian Resource Group: Nutrition, the vegan diet during pregnancy and lactation
Resources for Specific Pregnancy Related Nutrition Concerns
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Folic Acid, topic home page for folic acid, discusses why it is so importantUniversity of California San Francisco Children's Hospital: Pregnancy Care, information on iron and anemia in pregnancy
U.S. Department of Agriculture: Protect Your Baby and Yourself From Listeriosis, safe food handling for a healthy pregnancy
Center for Science In the Public Interest: Food Safety, guide to food additives
The National Academies: Advisers to the Nation on Science, Engineering, and Medicine, report recommends steps to reduce dietary dioxin exposure
Action Pennsylvania: Dioxin Homepage, discusses dioxin; what it is, exposure, cancer risks and more
Resources for Family Nutrition from Birth Through Adolescence
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Feeding Your Child for Lifelong Health: Birth Through Age Six (1999), by Susan B. Roberts and Melvin B. Heyman. Feeding Your Child for Lifelong Health: Birth Through Age Six is based on the principle of "metabolic programming," the scientifically rooted idea that foods eaten in early childhood directly affect the function of individual cells that control strength, intelligence, the immune system, and other vital functions. Learn more about Feeding Your Child for Lifelong Health from Amazon |
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The Family Nutrition Book: Everything You Need to Know About Feeding Your Children, from Birth Through Adolescence (1999), by William Sears and Martha Sears. Organic or regular baby food? White or wheat bread? Yogurt or ice cream? Parents often wonder how best to feed their families, but the wondering is over with The Family Nutrition Book: Everything You Need to Know About Feeding Your Children--From Birth Through Adolescence. The beloved William Sears and his wife, Martha (a nurse), teach you how to become your own family nutritionist. Learn more about The Family Nutrition Book from Amazon |
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Childbirth Connection is a national not-for-profit organization founded in 1918 as Maternity Center Association. Our mission is to improve the quality of maternity care through research, education, advocacy and policy. Childbirth Connection promotes safe, effective and satisfying evidence-based maternity care and is a voice for the needs and interests of childbearing families.
Childbirth Connection is a national not-for-profit organization founded in 1918 as Maternity Center Association. Our mission is to improve the quality of maternity care through research, education, advocacy and policy. Childbirth Connection promotes safe, effective and satisfying evidence-based maternity care and is a voice for the needs and interests of childbearing families.
Most recent page update: 9/7/2012