For many years now I’ve been urging pregnant women (and women aiming to conceive) to cut down or better still avoid caffeine altogether because even relatively small amounts of caffeine have been linked to an increased risk of miscarriage. And now the Government Food Standard’s Agency (FSA) is warning women to limit their consumption of caffeine from three cups to two cups a day.
Previous studies have shown that vitamin D, the sunshine vitamin which is produced from sunshine and found in oily fish and eggs is important for a healthy pregnancy, but a new study shows that a deficiency may also affect sperm.
It’s not just what you eat that can make you gain weight – it’s also HOW you eat. New research published in the British Journal of Medical Research Online First has shown that people who eat fast treble their risk of being overweight. Scientists have suggested that eating on the run and the couch potato lifestyles of fast food, larger portions and TV dinners and the demise of family mealtimes may be significant factors in growing levels of obesity. Eating fast can make you fat even if the calories consumed are less than people who eat slower. It is thought that the joint impact of eating quickly and until full overrides brain signals which encourage more self control.