Setting a New Year’s resolutions about getting your body fit, doing lots of exercise and becoming healthy in order to maximise your fertility? Wooooooooo- up girlfriend. Let’s arm you with some information first. There is such a thing as too much exercise, and of course there is also a problem of too little. The […]
So as a pregnancy and paediatric dietitian is not all cooing and smiling and congratulating. Sometimes there is the really hard stuff too, the pain of infertility and pregnancy loss, is one of those hard areas. Its little bit taboo to talk about these issues in our society, but it affects so many couples. There […]
The Mediterranean style diet is one of the most recognised food patterns studied for its health benefits. It is characterised to be a diet high in fruits and vegetables, legumes, nuts and seeds, whole-grains, and olive oil, moderate amounts of fish (low mercury fish best in pregnancy- see our previous blog https://www.drstar.com.au/love-fish-in-pregnancy/ , dairy and […]
Amazing new research out of Australia, shows Vitamin B3, also called niacin or nicotinamide in pregnancy may prevent many birth defects, at least in mice, but this is important because often the first stage of breakthrough research is in animal models. More studies in humans will be sure to follow. In humans we get our […]
