{"id":2309,"date":"2020-06-23T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T12:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/?p=2309"},"modified":"2020-06-22T12:30:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T12:30:05","slug":"prevent-gestational-diabetes-with-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/?p=2309","title":{"rendered":"Prevent Gestational Diabetes With Diet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Gestational diabetes is poor for both short term and long term maternal and fetal health<\/strong>. Gestational diabetes occurs in 7.6% of all pregnancies in the United States and is linked to adverse perinatal outcomes as well as increased long-term cardiometabolic risk. It is also associated with long-term&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/emedicine.medscape.com\/article\/123702-overview\">obesity<\/a>&nbsp;and other metabolic disorders in the child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Many studies have shown the benefits of proper diet and exercise during pregnancy in the prevention of gestational diabetes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The newest study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts &nbsp;shows that <strong>plant-based diets prior to pregnancy may help lower the risk of gestational diabetes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are some diets that are plant based but not as healthy. They recommended limiting unhealthful plant-based foods such as refined grains, potatoes, and sugar-sweetened foods and beverages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reducing consumption of certain animal-based foods, particularly red and processed meats, also decreased gestational diabetes risk<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gestational diabetes is poor for both short term and long term maternal and fetal health. Gestational diabetes occurs in 7.6%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9,167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-gyno-health","category-eat-antiage","category-pregnancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2310,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions\/2310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}