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Madeleine Shearer reported that a survey showed 25 to 80 percent of women in childbirth education classes were dieting to hold the line at their seven-month weight gain. The end of pregnancy is not only the time when the baby has a huge growth spurt...but it is ... a time of rapid growth of her brain cells. "Even mild degrees of maternal undernutrition in the last few weeks can interfere with the normal growth and development of the normal fetal brain," says John Dobbing, British research professor, quoted by Gail Brewer in What Every Pregnant Woman Should Know: The Truth about Diets and Drugs in Pregnancy.
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WEDNESDAY, June 16 (HealthDayNews) -- New research suggests that the dieting habits of teenage girls offer a crystal ball into their futures. The news isn't good: Those who try the hardest to lose weight as adolescents are most likely to become obese adults.
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In October the U.S. National Task Force on the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity published a review of nearly 30 years of medical research on "yo-yo" dieting. Contrary to some individual studies, this overview found no convincing evidence that repeated loss and gain of weight carried significant health hazards.
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