019: Prenatal nutrition with Lily Nichols, RDN

Pregnancy is such an exciting time, but can also be overwhelming. You want to make sure you’re doing everything possible to nurture your growing baby, but there’s a serious lack of information on the nutrition front. What foods should you emphasize? What should you avoid? What if everything healthy sounds terrible?

Thankfully, we have amazing RDs like Lily Nichols working to dispel pregnancy nutrition myths and provide advice you can use right now to promote a healthy pregnancy.

For my friends who aren’t currently pregnant, there are a ton of amazing tips in this episode for nurturing your body and taking care of your whole self through solid nutrition, exercise, stress management, and avoiding toxins when we can.

Topics covered in this episode:

– The most critical nutrients for pregnant mamas and how to get them

– What to do when all you want to eat are salt and vinegar chips

– Are the weight gain recommendations whack?

– Should you use protein powder while you’re pregnant?

– The dreaded gestational diabetes test and alternatives to the test

and so.much.more

Grab your notebooks for this one, friends, because Lily is dropping some serious knowledge bombs. 

Lily Nichols is a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist, Certified Diabetes Educator, researcher, and author with a passion for evidence-based prenatal nutrition. Drawing from the current scientific literature and the wisdom of traditional cultures, her work is known for being research-focused, thorough, and sensible. Her bestselling book, Real Food for Gestational Diabetes (and online course of the same name), presents a revolutionary nutrient-dense, lower carb approach for managing gestational diabetes. Her work has not only helped tens of thousands of women manage their gestational diabetes (most without the need for blood sugar-lowering medication), but has also influenced nutrition policies internationally. Lily’s clinical expertise and extensive background in prenatal nutrition have made her a highly sought after consultant and speaker in the field.

Lily’s second book, Real Food for Pregnancy, outlines the problems with current prenatal nutrition guidelines and provides the evidence—930 citations and counting—that supports a real food diet to optimize maternal and fetal health.

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Get her books: Real Food for Pregnancy and Real Food for Gestational Diabetes

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