Pregnancy Over 40, Good Diet Protects Your Child Too
After reading the article below, I'm so happy I ate a healthy diet before, during and after I conceived my daughter.
Apparently, a healthy diet high in fruits and vegetables can protect your baby from future cancer. Read more:
There may be another reason for pregnant and nursing women to eat a nutritious diet that includes generous amounts of cruciferous vegetables like broccoli and cabbage - it could help protect their children from cancer, both as infants and later in life.
SEE ALSO FOODS FOR FERTILITY AND PREGANCY (getpregnantover40.com)
A new study by scientists from the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University, done with laboratory mice, found that supplements of a key phytochemical found in certain vegetables provided a very high level of protection against leukemia and lymphoma in young animals, and also significantly protected against lung cancer during the rodent's equivalent of middle age.The research, published in the journal Carcinogenesis, is one of the first of its type to demonstrate that diet may play a protective role in a fight against cancer that may begin - and could be won or lost - well before a person is ever born. And some of the protective benefits may last into adulthood
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