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Eating for Two: Raspberry Leaf Tea

Yogi Tea One of the things I was most surprised to discover when I began reading about food and pregnancy was that not all herbal teas and infusions are safe for women who are expecting. Despite the evidence that many herbs have been known for millennia to affect human functioning for better or for worse, I vaguely believed that mind would triumph over matter when it came to anything I consumed in reasonable quantities—especially anything as anodyne as chamomile tea. After all, my coffee habit led me to drink five cups some days and allowed me to go without on others. No hot beverage was my master. Then I decided to give up caffeine for at least the first trimester....

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6 Comments | Posted by Robin Bellinger, July 8, 2008 at 12:45 PM
Tagged: drinks, Eating for Two, herbs, tea

Eating for Two: Iodized Salt

©iStockphoto.com/Cardston I thought I was past the part of my pregnancy where I worry about what to eat and onto the part where I worry about what we’re going to do with the kid when she’s out and about. But I just managed to find another source of concern, one I could have allayed easily enough at the beginning: most pregnant women should use iodized salt for cooking and seasoning, and I don’t. The vast majority Americans are using iodized salt without even thinking about it. We began adding iodine to much of our salt in the 1920s, after the draft during World War I revealed the extent to which hypothyroidism, a result of iodine deficiency, plagued the population. Thanks...

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16 Comments | Posted by Robin Bellinger, June 24, 2008 at 3:30 PM
Tagged: Eating for Two, health, nutrition, pregnancy, salt

Eating for Two: Recipe for a Boy or Girl

Eat more breakfast and you could have a boy! Last week news outlets from here to Islamabad announced the release of a study purporting to show that women with higher caloric intake and better nutrition at the time of conception are more likely to have boys than girls. Although it’s the father’s sperm that determines the sex of an embryo, the mother’s body can be more or less well suited to that embryo’s thriving. Goodness knows I’m no scientist, but I’m fairly skeptical about these conclusions. The amount of extra calories that encouraged male embryos seemed rather small, maybe just a few hundred. Perhaps because my own daily caloric intake can swing a few hundred up or down based on...

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5 Comments | Posted by Robin Bellinger, April 29, 2008 at 2:45 PM
Tagged: Eating for Two, nutrition, pregnancy

Eating for Two: Of Cheese and Anxiety

Saturday night I went out to dinner with two friends, one who does not have children and one whose daughter just celebrated her first birthday. The former suggested that I might want to order a certain salad, but the new mother said, “No, she can’t have feta! You can’t eat soft cheese when you’re pregnant.”

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7 Comments | Posted by Robin Bellinger, March 4, 2008 at 2:30 PM
Tagged: cheese, Eating for Two, health, listeriosis, pregnancy