“We are what we eat” is an old chestnut.
The journals are full of articles on how diets affect risk of disease and, with the prevalence of obesity at an all-time high, there is no lack of publications on diets that affect weight. The dangers of being overweight in pregnancy are well documented and the review by Catalano (see summary) highlights these.
Those wishing to supplement their diets with healthy additives should do so with caution. More is not necessarily better and the antioxidant story is sobering.
Pregnant women's intake is also revealing and the article on the dangers of eating fish is a real “myth-buster”.
Also in the life-style paradigm, sex is enjoying a greater press with the tensions between medicalising sexual function and suppressing information receiving attention. What is normal function and what is dysfunction?
You decide how much is enough of what!
