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Nutrition for Fetal Health

Good nutrition is important at any time, butresearch sample size was small, the results
is particularly vital for expecting mothers -supported an earlier study looking into the
in fact, a recent study suggests that eatingpossible  causes of brain tumors in children.
well and taking multi-vitamins may be even
more important at this time than wasThe research found that women who took
previously  thought.supplements close to the time of conception,
and who ate foods high in iron and folic
As early as the 1950s, doctors began toacid, were less likely to have children with
recognize the significance of folate, ortwo possible types of brain tumors -
folic acid, for fetuses in the earliestmedulloblastoma and primitive
stages of development. Adequate levels ofneuroectodermal. However, vitamins taken
folic acid (a B vitamin) can help preventlater in pregnancy did not seem to offer the
neural tube defects like spina bifida;same  benefits.
unfortunately, the crucial time period when
it should be taken is often over before aThe study also looked at possible links
woman  even  realizes  that's she's pregnant.between the consumption of cured meats
(containing nitrates and nitrosamines) and
For that reason, it's recommended that allbrain tumors. These substances have been
women of child-bearing age ensure they'refound to induce nervous system tumors in
getting enough folic acid. The task was madeanimals, but the research did not find a
a little easier when folate became a standardcorrelation between women who ate cured meats
additive in flour-based foods such as breadand the development of brain tumors in
and pasta; but many women who are pregnant orchildren.
trying to conceive choose to supplement their
diet with a prenatal vitamin high in folicWomen in the United States and Canada were
acid  and  iron.interviewed for this case-control study - 315
mothers of children who had been diagnosed
Researchers have recently uncovered a similarwith medulloblastoma or primitive
association between nutrition and theneuroectodermal tumors before the age of six,
development of childhood brain tumors.as well as 315 mothers of age and area
Although the study was not conclusive and thecode-matched control subjects.



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