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Article: Exercise in pregnancy beneficial to most women.(Women's Health)
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- Internal Medicine News
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- October 15, 2005
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Although exercise is promoted to the general population for its well-recognized benefits, it is still not adequately accepted or recommended during pregnancy, according to Raul Artal, M.D., professor and chair of obstetrics, gynecology, and women's health at St. Louis University.
The hesitance of physicians to recommend exercise to pregnant women is rooted in old-fashioned notions of pregnancy as a time of confinement, he said. With ample evidence to show that regular, moderate exercise in women with healthy pregnancies results in no adverse maternal or fetal effects, it could be argued that, in the spirit of "primum non nocere," physicians should make exercise ...