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Pregnancy nutrition – how do you measure up?

Growing a healthy baby relies on getting the extra nutrients that your baby needs for growth and development.  The food and drink you eat is the main source of nutrients for your growing baby. In pregnancy, there are amounts and types of food…
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Going against the grain – What are you missing out on if you go grain-free in pregnancy?

Grain foods have received a lot of unfavourable attention recently.  Many popular diets label them ‘high carb’ or ‘unhealthy’ and promote removing them from our diet. However, there is very little evidence that going grain-free will…
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Priming your body for pregnancy

It is well known that nutrition during pregnancy is important. However, many of us forget our habits and dietary patterns before falling pregnant can affect our baby’s health at birth, as well as for their entire lifetime. Getting it right…
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Fuel for School. Tips for healthy and easy lunchboxes.

The end of the school holidays are just around the corner and I bet you are thinking about making school lunches again…     What can I put my child’s school lunch in? Have plenty of small plastic containers, including a…
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What to eat before and after the gestational diabetes test

What is gestational diabetes? Gestational Diabetes Mellitus or GDM is a type of diabetes that occurs during pregnancy. It is diagnosed using a 2-hour Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT) at around 26 to 28 weeks of pregnancy*. The OGTT is…
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Why am I told to avoid so many foods in pregnancy? Understanding food safety in pregnancy.

Sometimes it can feel like the list of foods to avoid in pregnancy is longer that what you are allowed to eat. Due to changes in a woman’s immune system during pregnancy, you are more susceptible to food poisoning. This is from the usual culprits…
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Making sense of gestational diabetes – diagnosis and diet

What is gestational diabetes?  Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) or gestational diabetes (GD) is a type of diabetes that occurs during pregnancy. It is diagnosed following a 2-hour Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT) at around 24 to 28 weeks…
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Why “2 & 5”? – understanding the science that supports our dietary guideline goals for fruit and vegetables

The Australian Dietary Guidelines recommend we ‘Go for 2&5’ … in other words, to enjoy two serves of fruit and five serves of vegetables every day. Where does the recommendation for '2&5' come from? The benefits of eating fruit…
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Pregnancy weight gain – why just setting a number is the wrong conversation

Weight gain in pregnancy – it’s a hotly debated topic. Whether we post about it or discuss it with our antenatal colleagues we get some strong opinions and concerns. “Yet another thing to feel guilty about while pregnant!”   “Is…
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