Mend Your Diet

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Summary: current guidelines recommend too much weight gain, and the Institute of Medicine is planning to convene a committee to reconsider the 15-year old recommendations in light of current research. The issue is especially acute because more than half of women of childbearing age are overweight or obese even before pregnancy. Although the old guildlines were designed to protect the baby

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