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Summary: The best nutrition guidelines for mothers-to-be.
Review: Safeguard your baby's intelligence & physical development, and your health, by following this practical nutritional advice. The authors tell you what to avoid and why. Extensive dietary information is presented in a delightful way. Recipes are included. Avoid birth defects, pregnancy complications, brain damage, toxemia and other maladies by following this scientific, practical, and family-friendly advice! It's the BEST book out there for mothers-to-be. Also get: What to Expect When You're Expecting, by the same publishers.
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Summary: This book was so-so.
Review: This book has it's share of good and not-so-good recipes.The recipes are suggestions for pregnant women, and although a pregnent woman may not like everything suggested, she will find some foods to her liking.
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Summary: I'm a granola, but this was insane!!
Review: Wow! You can't even have regular pretzles; they must be whole wheat, salt free?! I lost six pounds in my first trimester (with nary a sign of morning sickness, mind you...) just trying to follow these crazy rules. This book is for arobicized nuts who do the stairmaster in the gym's front window in a thong. Hey, have a doughnut, will ya?
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Summary: From the Back Cover
Review: "They've done it again! The authors of WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTING have written another book that obstetricians can respect and expectant mothers can love...Not only is this book medically accurate, it's easy to follow." - Richard Aubry, M.D. Clear answers to hundreds of concerns:
How diet affects morning sickness. Mood swings. Leg cramps.
How to tell what's safe to eat and what's not.
Why the lack of proper nutrients often is linked to miscarriage.
Whether or not your baby will suffer if you can't drink milk. Your chances of having a comfortable pregnancy, a safe delivery, and a healthy infant are dramatically improved if you are on an excellent diet. The Best-Odds nine basic principles for nine months of nutritious eating provides just such a plan. It is complete with the most current data on calories, drugs, food additives, the importance of fiber, vitamin suppliments and more. Includes the Best-Odds Prepregnancy and Breastfeeding diets. Plus delicious recipes for high-protein meatless entrees, nonalcoholic cocktails, naturally-sweetened cakes, cookies, and taste-tempting desserts.
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Summary: Boy this is tough to follow!
Review: This book includes the strictest diet I have ever seen! I do not see how even the most diligent people keep from cheating. I would not reccomend this book.
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Summary: Don't bother.
Review: While the exchange guidelines are good, the whole tone of the book is unnecessarily alarmist, even punitive. I quit trying the recipes after two of them turned out to be inedible--and I didn't have morning sickness.
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Summary: An Alarmist Approach, Dismissed By Our OB-GYN
Review: Herbal tea is dangerous?
No white bread?
By the time my wife and I had skimmed through "What To Eat..." we were concerned enough with what we read to ask our doctor. He dismissed it with a wave of his hand. "Everyone is trying to sell a book," he said. "The way to sell books is to say something extreme."
We found that the best way to use this book was to learn the principles (wheat germ and cottage cheese are "efficient" vehicles of nutrition, we found), but not become too alarmed by the extremisim.
Buy the book, stock your kitchen pantry as suggested, and even try some of the recipes...
but remember to take a deep breath, not panic and use your own common sense when it comes to feeding the life inside you.
PS: If you haven't done so already, take a look at the excellent "What To Expect When You're Expecting." It has the balanced, common-sense approach to the whole "baby thing" that this book lacks.
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Summary: Good but strict diet plan
Review: This book is a bit on the strict side of diet plans. But if you are interested in eating only the best for not just your baby but also for yourself, this book is worth reading. Following this diet has helped me keep my pregnancy weight gain to a minimum. My doctor has also been very happy with all of my blood tests throughout my pregnancy. This diet may seem impossible to follow at first but you will get used to it and actually start to feel better. The biggest problem I have with this book is that several of the recipes haven't worked for me. You just have to try the recipes and adjust them as needed the next time you make it. I look forward to continuing this diet after my pregnancy and I believe it will help get me back to prepregnancy weight much faster.
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Summary: Helpful
Review: I found this book helpful. I've actually ridded my house of all the "junk". I'm also cooking healthier. I admit that I don't follow the book to a "T". I use moderation and use this book. Some of the recipes are time consuming. I've enjoyed the bread and the dessert section. The main course section could use some reworking.
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Summary: Oh for a zero stars rating
Review: A more appropriate title for this book would be, What to Eat When You're Expecting If You Have an Eating Disorder.
Weighing yourself everyday? Ordering broiled meat without sauce in restaurants? "Cheating" by eating a bagel with cream cheese? Sounds an awful lot like the last diet I went on. I brought this book into an appointment with my OB, who said, "Yes, I looked at that book when I was pregnant. I remember thinking, I'm glad I'm a physician, or this would really freak me out."
Expectant Moms: Please, please, do not buy this book. Don't read it. Eat like a healthy, reasonable, HUNGRY human being and follow your doctor's advice. Don't listen to advocates for "a good looking pregnancy," or an author who boasts about gaining only twenty pounds during her pregnancy (five pounds less than the minimum recommendation).
There's enough pressure in this culture to be thin during our ordinary lives. Let's not take it to the point of striving to be thin while we're pregnant. Shame, shame on Heidi Murkoff.
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