The idea that women need to eat a lot of extra food when they are pregnant has endured, but it’s not the only nonsense expectant parents have to put up with
The myth of “eating for two” endures partly because it kind of makes sense, but mainly because it is so appealing. In a survey of 2,100 women, the National Charity Partnership (NCP) found that two-thirds of women did not know how many extra calories they needed during pregnancy (a measly 200 a day – something like, the charity says, two pieces of wholegrain toast with olive-oil spread – and only in the third trimester). Being overweight in pregnancy carries increased risks to the woman and baby; the myth, said the Alex Davis, head of prevention for the NCP, is “very unhelpful”. Other myths are just annoying – and at no other life stage will a woman be subjected to so much rubbish.
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