Ep 42 Pregnancy Gluten Free
Let’s start the blog with the Show Notes for this episode:
My conversation this week is with American Certified Nutritionist Aimee Aristotelous who has recently published a book looking at pregnancy from the perspective of a healthy gluten free diet. The book is called – The Whole Pregnancy: A Complete Nutrition Plan for Gluten-Free Moms-to-Be. Aimee looks at all aspects of nutrition required for pregnancy and relates it to a healthy gluten free diet. She includes meal plans and recipes to suit the different needs of each trimester.
The book is available through most book sellers as well as from Amazon.
Aimee can be found online at www.thewholepregnancy.com and on Instagram at thewholepregnancy.
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Baking Website – https://www.suesglutenfreebaking.com
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Email – sue@suesglutenfreebaking.com
New Podcast – Gluten Free Weigh In – https://glutenfreeweighin.libsyn.com
My Thoughts –
Pregnancy is often a time of excitement, mixed with fear of the unknown. It’s a time when you and everyone around you want to do the right thing. This is where our understanding of the gluten free diet might be letting us down. We try and educate ourselves to make our diet as healthy as it can be, but then the unknown enters the picture.
How much should a Mom-to-be increase her food, what nutrients should she be looking to increase and how will she know that she is choosing the best sources? All these questions are common to every pregnant woman, but adding the complexity of the gluten free diet, may be enough to cause someone to second guess how they are feeding themselves. To say nothing of the comments from all those around her, who ask, speak and give advice out of love and concern.
Today, the pregnant woman who is eating gluten free because of celiac disease, non-celiac gluten sensitivity, or simply because she feels more in control of her health issues, is challenged to incorporate everything she is being told about eating healthy, eating for two, and getting all the right nutrition gluten free.
A book that brings information and perspective to these issues is very welcome – Thank you Aimee!