Questions and Answers about Dieting while pregnant

How dangerous is severe dieting while pregnant?

Nov 21, 2008 by BKHB | Posted in Pregnancy

Question: Someone I know did this and it seems her baby is very slow in developing. At 21 months his not talking very much and seems pretty uncoordinated. Could there be a link between his development and the dieting? She didn't want people to know she was pregnant before getting married

Answer: That breaks my heart :(

Look at it this way.

Think about the size of a sperm.

Then think of the size of a newborn baby.

All that happens in 40 weeks.

That's INSANE.

It blows

Joel's Mommy! | Nov 21, 2008

Yes... nutritional deficiencies can most certainly cause slow development. How terribly sad that someone would do such a thing...

A Y | Nov 21, 2008

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(WMC-TV) – It's a diet that promises to help you lose a pound or more per day, and it discourages people from exercising. But while there are those who are singing the praises of the HCG diet, others are asking if it is truly worth it.

For Keisha Marshall, her ‘fat jeans say it all.'

Just before she decided to diet, she was on vacation in Cancun and embarrassed to be seen in a swimsuit. But now, Marshall says, her days of ‘yo yo' dieting are over because of injections of the pregnancy hormone HCG. In non-pregnant patients, HCG tricks the brain into burning extra fat cells instead of using those cells to nourish a growing baby.

Patients take the injections, drops or nasal sprays over a three week period and limit their diet to 500 calories a day.

"I was fine," Marshall said. "I was good, really."

But according to national diet expert Dr. Neal Barnard, the diet is potentially dangerous.

"I think its dangerous for people to go this route, because first of all, a starvation diet has consequences," Barnard said.

Source: WMC-TV

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