healthier diet early in pregnancy. Specifically, they should eat more nuts, olive oil, fruit and unrefined grains, she said, while limiting animal fats and sugar.
Study co-author Dr. Bassel Wattar said it had been unclear how a Mediterranean-style diet would affect high-risk pregnant women and whether it could be adapted for an ethnically diverse population. He’s a lecturer in obstetrics and gynecology at Queen Mary and the University of Warwick.
“Now we know that pregnant women from an inner city, high-risk, multi-ethnic population are able to adapt their diet to a Mediterranean-style, and that this can bring them important benefits including a reduction in weight gain and a lower risk of developing gestational diabetes,” Wattar said in the news release.
More information
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has more on pregnancy and nutrition.
