That little extra - the importance of supplements for pregnant women

By Jay Orpen ©Independent.ie
An identical twin with a lifelong passion for obstetrics and pregnant women’s health, Dr Louis Keith also has a keen interest in nutrition.
He explains to Joy Orpen why it is so vital for pregnant women to supplement their diets with certain vitamins and minerals.
In this modern era of overprocessed food, we need to get serious about proper nutrition. If we do, then we may well reach the conclusion that, given the way food is grown and processed, it's likely we should be consuming large doses of vitamins and minerals in supplement form.
Unless, of course, we have access to the sort of freshly grown, organic fare our great-grandparents enjoyed — a diet where seeds, cereals, nuts, vegetables and fruits were used in their original state, unaltered by the use of chemical pesticides, hormones or other harmful substances so beloved of massproduction and the fast buck.
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