Pregnant women are constantly overloaded with information about what is useful and what is harmful. However, all sensible people realize even without being pregnant that smoking and drinking are harmful. But vitually nothing is said about the fact that not all fruits are good for future moms. Full story

A young woman should get ready for the birth of a child from a very early age. But she should especially prepare her body during pregnancy. Why Is Healthy Nutrition So Important during Pregnancy? There is no need to convince anyone that proper nutrition for pregnant women is extremely important, because wrong nutrition ... Full story

There is the so-called "black list" of products that pregnant women should forget about since they can cause food poisoning or bring harm to the unborn baby. Full story

The women, who cut the share of animal fats and cholesterol in their diet during pregnancy, can reduce the risk of developing gestational diabetes. Full story

Pregnant women, who eat lots of beef, give birth to sons, who have a low content of active sperm when they grow up. This is according to a new research. Full story

Some doctors believe that the real trouble for children's teeth is caused not by chocolate and candies, but by "healthy" drinks instead – juices, fruit cocktails, and smoothies. Full story

Why don't our children like to eat vegetables? One of the reasons may be sensitivity to bitterness. Full story

Overweight women can control their weight gain during pregnancy safely, without any threat for themselves or the child, as well as lose excess weight, sticking to the rules of proper nutrition. Full story

If your family dreams of having children, you should pay attention to such factors as your husband's diet. The experts say that sperm quality can greatly increase the chances of vconception, and to improve its quality, one should follow certain rules of healthy eating. Full story

The researchers have found that omega-3 fatty acids, which are contained in salmon, mackerel, tuna, walnuts, pumpkin seeds and flax seeds, force the gastrointestinal tract develop in such a way as to activate the immune system. Full story

Nutritionists warn that one should not give cow milk to infants because it is too salty for them. Cow milk contains 4 times more salt than breast milk. Full story

Is it possible to cajole children into eating vegetables without getting your hackles rise first? Serious job, that, but boffins reveal it can be made much easier if feeding kids with greens begins at the earliest stages of pregnancy. Full story

The scientists from the Harvard School of Public Health are alarmed that with each year passing by the number of obese children in the world is growing. Full story

The health of the future baby is determined by not only what the mother eats during pregnancy, but her diet long before conception as well. Full story

Recent studies have shown that pesticides, which get into the body of a pregnant woman may threaten not only her health but the health of the child as well. Full story

Children of low height who eat enough vegetables of orange color begin to grow several times faster than their peers. Full story

Not so long ago the New York gallery gave all the volunteering food experimenters an opportunity to try the unusual cheese made of women’s breast milk. Full story

The doctors from the UC Berkeley, USA, have presented another argument for eating ecologically clean food during pregnancy. Their more than 10-year study has shown that if the expectant mother is constantly eating fruit and vegetables which contain pesticides (such as organophosphate fertilizers), her child might run the risk of falling behind peers in his/her intellectual development. Full story

The children, whose mothers were eating improperly during pregnancy, are more inclined to corpulence. Such conclusion has been made by an international group of scientists led by Keith Godfrey of the University of Southampton (UK). Full story

Pediatricians from the American Association for the prevention and treatment of childhood diseases have analyzed the data on fifteen hundred healthy infants. Until the time the children reached the age of one year, the young mothers had been giving answers to the questionnaire. The questions were about the scheme of feeding babies and grown-up children. Full story

World Health Organization has issued recommendations on the time when the child should be best transferred from breastfeeding to complementary foods. But the British researchers have reached the conclusion that the late introduction of complementary foods may harm the child’s health. This kind of discovery can lead to a real revolution in the fields of neonatology and pediatrics. Full story

As part of the British national movement against overweight and obesity, a team from the University of Reading conducted a study of how and in what quantity various categories of the population consume fresh fruits and vegetables, which are a necessary component of a balanced diet. Full story

There is an opinion that an expectant mother should eat for two. Perhaps this is the most common misconception among pregnant women. Pregnant women’s nutrition should be balanced, and it does not mean that a woman in the family way has to eat as much as possible. Full story

Pregnancy is the time when so many things in life will have to change. Eating habits is arguably the most important item in the list of changes, but while some food reservations are obvious, other foods one had better avoid are not. So, the question of what foods to give up and why requires a serious consideration. Full story

The scientists have made a startling announcement: antioxidants can be the cause of sterility. The reason is that nowadays these substances are being added everywhere: into food products, beverages and even into make-up. However, the final impact of antioxidants on the human organism has not been studied yet. The most widespread antioxidants are well-known to people vitamins C and E. Full story