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Article: So what CAN pregnant women safely eat ? Good Health.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- November 25, 2003
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Byline: AMY ANDERSON
A NEW study says women who eat a lot of processed carbohydrates during early pregnancy could put their unborn child at greater risk of neural tube defects, such as spina bifida. This follows warnings that women on a high protein diet (like the Atkins) could also put their baby at risk. AMY ANDERSON asked Brigid McKevith from the British Nutrition Foundation to separate fact from fiction.
CARBOHYDRATES
Research says: It was a new study of 1,000 women at the California Birth Defects Unit which found that pregnant women who ate a diet high in sugar and refined carbohydrates such as white bread, cornflakes and white pasta, almost doubled the risk ...