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Cynthie Wautlet, MD, of the UW Ob-Gyn Division of Academic
Specialists in Ob-Gyn, and Katie Antony, MD, of the UW Ob-Gyn Division of
Maternal-Fetal Medicine, authored a publication in a recent edition of the
American Journal of Perinatology Reports.
In “Nutrition and Exercise Strategies to Prevent Excessive Pregnancy Weight Gain: a Meta-Analysis,” the authors evaluate nutrition-only,
exercise-only, and nutrition-plus-exercise interventions for optimizing
gestational weight gain. The meta-analysis looked at results from 31 previous
studies on interventions for gestational weight gain – the included studies
looked at nutrition-only interventions, nutrition plus exercise, and exercise
only.
According to the analysis,
“…nutrition-only interventions were more effective at
decreasing rates of excessive GWG than exercise or nutrition-plus-exercise
interventions. Time and resources are limited for all clinicians and clinics.
Therefore, clinicians and clinical programs should focus efforts on nutrition
education with health messages targeting increased consumption of fruits and
vegetables and decreased consumption of foods with high fat or sugar content to
maximize effectiveness.”
You can read the whole
publication here.
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