Health and Fitness

High Animal Fat Diet Increases Gestational Diabetes Risk

NIH study shows animal fat before conception linked to pregnancy related condition

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Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–January 25, 2012. Women who consumed a diet high in animal fat and cholesterol before pregnancy were at higher risk for gestational diabetes than women whose diets were lower in animal fat and cholesterol, according to researchers at the National Institutes of Health and Harvard University.

Gestational diabetesis a form of diabetes seen during pregnancy. Gestational diabetes increases the risk for…

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