Have you ever gained a lot of weight in just one day?

Have you ever gained a lot of weight in just one day? - If you have, then you are, perhaps, puzzled at how that could be possible. Here is the answer to the puzzle:

The weight you have gained is water weight, also known as fluid retention, sodium retention or salt sensitivity. It is often caused by pharmaceutical drugs prescribed by doctors. See anti-depressants and other drugs and HRT, Steroids and other drugs. It can also be caused by pregnancy.

You can read on my website about the vulnerable groups that can gain (and lose) weight very rapidly. They include children.

You can lose water weight fast, easily and safely. You can also safely lose excess fat.

Birth brain defect - hydrocephalus - could be treated with vitamin supplement

Research suggests that a vitamin supplement taken during pregnancy could prevent hydrocephalus - one of the common forms of birth brain defect. Scientists at The University of Manchester and Lancaster University say laboratory tests have shown that administering a combination of vitamins (tetrahydrofolate and folinic acid), dramatically reduces the risk of hydrocephalus.
Read article at physorg.com

Vitamin D reduces risk of multiple sclerosis

Taking vitamin D supplements during pregnancy and in the early years of life could reduce the risk of developing multiple sclerosis, research suggested yesterday. Scientists have discovered that the chances of developing MS are influenced by vitamin D levels coupled with a common gene variant. Children with the genetic mutation may be more at risk of developing the disease if they lack vitamin D while growing in the womb or during their early years of life.
Read article at scotsman.com (Scotland/UK)

Desk-bound office workers at double DVT (Deep Vein Thrombosis) risk

Desk-bound workers at double DVT risk

Extracts from the Telegraph:

"Office workers who sit at a desk for eight hours a day and spend more than three hours without stretching double their risk of developing deep vein thrombosis (DVT), scientists have warned.

A study has confirmed that sitting for long periods is as dangerous as flying for raising the risk of potentially fatal blood clots.

Researchers in Southampton and New Zealand questioned 200 patients who were admitted to hospital for either blood clots or heart problems and compared how long each group had remained sitting, both in total and in one period without getting up.

Prof Richard Beasley, from Wellington Hospital, New Zealand, said: "The risk of developing blood clots with prolonged seated immobility is largely unrecognised. However, this study has shown that it is at least as important a factor as long-distance air travel."

"He said more research should be carried out to establish how the workplace environment affects rates of deep vein thrombosis and whether chairs could be designed to encourage a healthy blood flow in the lower limbs.

It is estimated that about one in 2,000 people develop DVT each year in Britain.

Hospital patients who have recently had surgery are at greatest risk. Pregnancy and obesity also increases the risk."

Since obesity is a factor in developing DVT, you can reduce your risk of DVT by eating less salt and salty food because this reduces obesity.

Lose weight, reduce your risk of most cancers, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, stroke, heart disease, vascular dementia, osteopenia, osteoporosis, hypercholesterolaemia, depression, liver and kidney problems, and improve your health in many other ways without drugs or expense by eating less salt! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!

Was your skin once white (or tanned) and now it is red (e.g. red face) or pink (e.g. pink arms) or purple/blue (e.g. purple feet)? - Read on...

You have become sensitive to salt - maybe from prescribed steroids, HRT or antidepressants, maybe as a result of eating salty food during pregnancy, maybe because of dieting...

Your skin has become thinner, and the colour - red/pink/purple/blue - is from the blood vessels beneath the surface... Have a look at my website http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/.html (The site does not sell anything and has no banners or sponsors or adverts - just helpful information.)

Read my Mensa article on Obesity and the Salt Connection

Sodium in foods and

Associated health conditions

I can be contacted via my website if you need my further help. My help is free.

Epilepsy drug, valproate, may lower children's IQ

Epilepsy drug may lower children's IQ, study shows - Guardian

Extract:

"Women who took an epilepsy drug during their pregnancy are at greater risk of having children with lower IQ, according to a study. Taking the drug valproate - which is already at the centre of a British court action after claims that it has damaged children - seems to double the chance that the woman's child will be born with mental retardation.

Around 140 British families claim their children are suffering from foetal anti-convulsant syndrome because their mothers took valproate during pregnancy. The syndrome encompasses a range of neural, behavioural and physical disorders such as cleft palate and spina bifida, learning difficulties, behavioural problems and abnormalities in movement, speech, vision and hearing. Many mothers were prescribed the brand Epilim, made by Sanofi-Synthelabo, though the drug is also available in generic forms. So far, Sanofi is the only company involved in the court action, with a trial date set for October 2008.

In the research, Kimford Meador, of the University of Florida in Gainesville, looked at IQ results of 187 children born to mothers who had taken the epilepsy drugs carbamazepine, lamotrigine, phenytoin, or valproate during pregnancy. The results, presented yesterday at the American Academy of Neurology's annual meeting in Boston, showed 24% of the children of mothers who took valproate had an IQ low enough to be defined as mentally retarded, compared to 12% for carbamazepine, 9% for lamotrigine, and 12% for phenytoin.

Children whose mothers took carbamazepine scored an average of 93 points on the IQ tests, those on phenytoin 93, lamotrigine 96, and 84 for valproate. "Our findings are consistent with other studies, which have shown valproate poses an increased risk for foetal death and birth defects," said Dr Meador."

Doctors are supposed to avoid prescribing drugs to pregnant women unless the drugs are absolutely necessary because so many drugs are particularly dangerous to unborn babies. I know personally, however, that valproate is a dangerous drug and that it is not only unborn babies that are affected. - I used to know a woman whose only child, a beloved daughter, died because an obstinate doctor had insisted to her mother that the drug was safe and that the little girl was just attention-seeking and not really ill...)o: - And I, in my innocence years ago, took Epilim for some weeks. I was told that it would lessen the chronic toothache I suffered because of the sustained gross negligence of senior dental staff at the Charles Clifford Dental Hospital. - It did not lessen the pain at all; what it did do was cause some of my hair to fall out. It has many adverse side-effects. - For years now I've been punctilious in avoiding all drugs that I can; I'm certain that on the whole they do far, far more harm than good.


Lose weight by eating less salt! Go on! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!
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More babies - one in 100 - are born with foetal alcohol syndrome than all the major genetic disorders combined.

'The brutal fact is that Dominic looks like this because he was so drunk while in the womb' - Sunday Telegraph

Extracts:

"More babies - one in 100 - are born with foetal alcohol syndrome than all the major genetic disorders combined, yet the public know almost nothing about it. With alcohol consumption increasing among women, Olga Craig uncovers the appalling consequences for the damaged children. "

"About 28 babies with the most severe form are born each week. Yet the woeful lack of diagnostic expertise within the medical profession and the lack of publicity given to the syndrome means that thousands of women drink, and drink heavily, during pregnancy, oblivious to the risk to their unborn child.

Last Friday, backed by women such as Mrs Head, Lord Mitchell, the Labour peer, introduced the Alcohol Labelling Bill in the House of Lords, calling for it to be made compulsory for all alcohol containers to carry labels warning about the dangers of drinking while pregnant - as is already the case in France, America and Chile.

The backbench bill, which is backed by the National Organisation for Foetal Alcohol Syndrome (NOFAS), gained an unopposed second reading. But it may face a rocky ride through the Commons, since many MPs believe it is yet another example of a nannying state. Without Government backing it is unlikely to become law.

As Britain's binge-drinking culture becomes ingrained in our psyche, all too few pregnant women are aware of the enormous risks to which they expose their unborn child if they continue to drink."

"Raj Mukhjejee, a leading expert in FASD, from St George's hospital medical school, in south London, says we now know that the problem is much greater than was previously thought, and it needs more publicity. "The uncertain levels of risk to the developing foetus, coupled with the possibility of misinterpreting a health-promotion message means the only safe message in pregnancy is abstinence," he says.

His view would seem to be at odds with Department of Health guidelines, which are also followed by the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. They suggest that it is safe to drink one to two units, once or twice a week."

It seems clear that pregnant mothers will give their baby a healthier start in life by avoiding alcohol during pregnancy. And it would be a heavy burden of guilt to bear if, by binge-drinking in pregnancy, a mother caused her child to be born seriously disabled. - Pregnant mothers will also give their baby a healthier start in life if they avoid salt and salty food during pregnancy. - This would safeguard their own health too, lowering their risk of high blood pressure and undue weight gain. - See http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/pregnant_mothers.html

Lose weight by eating less salt! Go on! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!
See my website www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk
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A portable foetal heart monitor which has been developed could help to cut the number of stillbirths in Britain

Device offers hope of cutting stillbirth rate - Guardian

Extract:

"A portable foetal heart monitor which has been developed for pregnant women could help to cut the number of stillbirths in Britain, according to the charity that funded the research.
About 3,500 babies are stillborn every year in England and Wales, according to the Office for National Statistics. Stillbirth is often related to risk factors such as a mother's history of diabetes or high blood pressure, or a previous stillbirth.

Until now there has been no way to monitor the heartbeat of the foetus continuously without admitting the mother to hospital and attaching her to a machine. After 15 years' work, scientists funded by the charity Action Medical Research have come up with a device the size of a mobile phone which can be worn throughout pregnancy by women in risk categories.

"Potentially it will help save lives of babies and in some cases mothers who are at risk," said John Crowe, an electronics engineer from Nottingham University involved in the project.

About 70,000 women, a tenth of those who go through pregnancy every year, could benefit from the device, saving money for the NHS and preventing deaths. More than 1.2 million women were admitted to hospital for complications of pregnancy during 2004-05, accounting for 17.5% of all women inpatients."

Diabetes and high blood pressure are both mentioned here as risk factors for stillbirths. - Both diabetes and high blood pressure (and also many other health problems) are associated with salt sensitivity. - Pregnant women should be strongly advised to minimise their salt intake during pregnancy, both for the sake of their own health and that of the baby to come. - See http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/conditions.html and http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/pregnant_mothers.html

Smoking while pregnant increases the likelihood of having a girl baby rather than a boy.

Smoking while pregnant raises the likelihood of having a girl - Independent

Extracts:

"Parents who are smokers when they conceive a child are far more likely to have girls than boys, an extensive study by paediatricians has found. The chance of having a male baby drops by almost half if both parents smoke during early pregnancy, amid fresh evidence that smoking could "kill" male foetuses in the womb.

Smoking not only reduces the chances of conceiving a male child, but could stop male embryos implanting in the womb and cause miscarriages.

While almost 52 per cent of all new-born babies are male in the western world, the proportion of female offspring rises dramatically among smokers. The study into 9,000 pregnancies in Liverpool found a startling imbalance in the number of girl babies among parents who smoke.

Mothers who smoked during pregnancy were one-third less likely to have male children than mothers who did not smoke. If the father also smoked, and if factors such as the health and age of the mother were accounted for, the chances of having a male child reduces by almost half.

The research by paediatricians at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has caused excitement in the international scientific community, which says it raises serious questions about the effect of smoking on population balance."

"The research, by a team of paediatricians led by Professor Bernard Brabin, found that substances contained in cigarettes, such as nicotine, inhibit sperm carrying male chromosomes from fertilising eggs."


If you are pregnant, reducing your salt intake is good for your own health and also that of your baby-to-be. - See pregnant mothers

Lose weight by eating less salt! Go on! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!
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Should nurses carry out abortions?

Let nurses carry out abortions, say experts - Telegraph

Extract:

"Backers of the change argue that early abortion is not surgery, does not need to be carried out by a doctor and that specialist nurses already undertake comparable procedures.

Vincent Argent, a consultant obstetrician at Addenbrooke's Cambridge University Teaching Hospital and Lin Pavey, of the Royal College of Nursing termination of pregnancy group, say specially-trained nurses could perform such procedures, without a doctor present. They also argue that the law which prevents nurses from carrying our surgical abortions has been misinterpreted.

But the pro-life charity Life said yesterday that such a change would trivialise abortion and make it easier to obtain."

Many women experience poor support after giving birth. Patricia Hewitt, the Health Secretary, is expected to unveil new maternity strategy next month.

'No one cared about me and my baby' - Sunday Telegraph

Extracts:

"The hours and days after childbirth are among the most difficult in a woman's life, so why is the NHS so bad at providing support? David Harrison uncovers a tale of over-stretched staff and bureaucratic arrogance

Karen Linnett was "exhausted and anxious" after giving birth to Billy, two years ago. "He was my first child. I was in pain, hormonal and nervous that I couldn't cope," she says. Six days later, when she left hospital to take Billy home to Hampstead, north London, she was soothed by an assurance that a community midwife would visit her next morning.

But the midwife didn't turn up. Ms Linnett, a photographer, became worried. Concerned that Billy was not feeding properly, she rang to ask what was happening. There was no answer. She left messages. Hours later she was told no one would come for four days. "I lost it," she says. "I was shouting at them hysterically because I was scared."

A midwife was found and she finally arrived at 7pm. "When she weighed Billy, the scales showed he had lost weight," says Ms Linnett, 43. "But she told me not to worry because the scales were inaccurate.""

"The Government admits that the situation is unacceptable. Next month Patricia Hewitt, the Health Secretary, is expected to unveil a new maternity strategy that will guarantee every woman a named midwife to care for her throughout her pregnancy and during labour, helped by a maternity support worker."

During pregnancy it is a good idea for women to minimise their salt intake. This will limit any excess weight gain and will lower the risk of high blood pressure and other health problems. - See http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/pregnant_mothers.html

Rapid Weight Gain? Unexplained Weight Gain? Excessive Weight Gain during and following Pregnancy? Massive Weight Gain? Fluctuations in Weight? Yo-yo?

Your problem is sodium retention and water/fluid retention. This is often caused by prescription drugs like anti-depressants or steroids, but some other prescription drugs can also cause this. - All you need to do to lose some excess weight is to eat less salt/sodium and salty food, and at the same time make sure you are eating plenty of fresh vegetables and fruit. - AND GIVE UP DIETING!

Lose weight by eating less salt! Go on! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!
See my website www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk
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See http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/steroids.html

and http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/ami.html

and Sodium in foods

Pregnant women should avoid alcohol. - New warning.

'No alcohol' warning for pregnant women

Extract:

"Women will be told not to drink while pregnant or even when trying for a baby in controversial government guidelines which will mean warning labels being put on bottles of wine, spirits and beer.

The plea for total abstinence follows growing fears over the rise among binge drinking among young women and concern that maternal drinking can cause possible brain damage in the womb. The new warnings are being fiercely resisted by the drinks industry on the grounds it contradicts the Department of Health's own official health advice to expectant mothers, which allows up to two units a day - the equivalent of a single glass of wine - once or twice a week."

Of particular concern is the prevention of Foetal Alcohol Syndrome, which sometimes results from drinking alcohol during pregnancy.

Pregnant women should also be strongly urged to cut down on salt and salty food while they are pregnant. This would benefit both their own health and that of the baby-to-be. See http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/pregnant_mothers.html (Extract: If you eat as little salt/sodium as possible you will avoid unhealthy weight gain and also protect yourself from high blood pressure and will lower the risk of pre-eclampsia. You will suffer less tiredness during the pregnancy.") and also see http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/sodium_foods.html

Pregnant mothers warned about dangers from eating fish that contain mercury

Mothers-to-be warned of mercury threat - Guardian article

Extract:

"An important source of the metal in the atmosphere is fossil fuels, especially coal. From here, it is deposited in waterways and the sea where it is taken up by aquatic organisms. As it moves up the food chain it becomes concentrated and can reach high levels in large predatory fish, such as tuna, shark and swordfish. Mercury is particularly dangerous for the developing foetus, according to John Munthe at the Swedish Environmental Research Institute in Gothenburg. "If the foetus is exposed during the stage when the nervous system is developing this can cause permanent damage," he said.

It can also cause health problems in adults. Recent evidence shows that exposure increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, and can lead to brain damage."


Lose weight by eating less salt! Go on! - Try it!
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Snacking gene contributes to obesity - says Steve O'Rahilly, Professor of Biochemistry and Medicine at the University of Cambridge. - What drivel!

Snacking gene contributes to obesity

Extract:

"Steve O'Rahilly, Professor of Biochemistry and Medicine at the University of Cambridge, and one of the researchers who identified the abnormality, said: "The vast majority of these people have already been along the diet route. They have tried intense attempts to lose weight and it simply fails.

"They are fat for a reason. They have impaired ability to remain satiated between meals because they have a molecule that is broken in their brain — it does not transmit the signal that tells them when they are full.""

This is foolish nonsense!

Child obesity is almost always caused by eating salt and salty food. These fat children will grow up to be fat adults unless they stop eating salty food.

Adult obesity, in adults who were previously slim, is usually caused by salt sensitivity and fluid retention, exacerbated by the flawed 'expert' advice that calorie restriction is necessary in order to lose weight. You do NOT need to restrict calories to lose excess weight! - You need to eat less salt/sodium.

Salt sensitivity is often caused either by taking prescribed medications that cause sodium retention, and not being warned that while taking these drugs that they must avoid eating salt, or by pregnancy, and not being warned that while pregnant they must avoid eating salt.

Obesity is NOT caused by faulty genes that make people hungry between meals! - It is caused by 'experts' - like this professor - giving the wrong information.

All obesity, whether in children or adults, is accompanied by increased appetite/hunger - the reason for which should be glaringly obvious! - A bigger, heavier body requires more calories/energy to move it around and to service it. And a bigger body has a greater surface area from which to lose heat, so for this second reason also it requires extra calories.

And since all obesity uses up so many calories and also makes the body so ungainly and uncomfortable, obese people do not usually feel like taking much exercise. - Their inactivity is the consequence of the excess weight and not the cause of it.

The overeating/underactivity explanation for the cause of obesity, and all the associated explanations dependant upon it, are not supported by EVIDENCE. - The calorie myth is just that: a myth.

OBESITY IS CAUSED BY FLUID RETENTION, NOT BY OVEREATING AND/OR BY INACTIVITY. THE BEST, THE SAFEST, THE FASTEST WAY TO REDUCE OBESITY IS TO CUT DOWN DRASTICALLY ON SALT INTAKE, AND TO EAT PLENTY OF FRESH FRUIT AND VEGETABLES - AND COMPLETELY ABANDON CALORIE RESTRICTION BECAUSE THIS IS A RED HERRING.

Here is an extract from my webpage http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/story.html:

"Calorie counting and advice about increasing exercise and reducing fat intake to reduce obesity are ineffective, counter-productive and often damaging. - See the article in the British Medical Journal of November 2003 BMJ article for actual research on what happens when this advice is followed! - Over 800 obese adults were put on energy deficit diets, given diet sheets and plenty of instruction and help from trained staff, and apparently, visited fortnightly for a year, at the end of which they had GAINED weight! This mirrors the real experience of obese people, viz. - dieting makes you fat.

It is commonly accepted now, except by the 'experts', that less than 5% of dieters actually lose weight, and most gain weight as a result of dieting. - Even the ones who manage to lose weight do not usually improve their health. - See Guardian article for a report in The Guardian of Monday, June 27th 2005. It is about a huge research study of nearly 3000 people over a period of 18 years. The study found that overweight people who diet to reach a healthier weight are more likely to die young than those who remain fat. It also found that dieting causes physiological damage that in the long term can outweigh the benefits of the weight loss.

Contributing to the increase in obesity we have the widespread prescribing of steroids and HRT and other drugs which cause weight gain, and the failure of doctors to adhere to the protocols connected with the prescribing and monitoring of steroids. But pre-eminent, in my opinion, is the catastrophically damaging calorie-reduction advice that continues to be given despite such a wealth of evidence that it is bad advice.

Another possible factor is the increase in the amount of oestrogen in the water table."

All that is normally necessary to lose excess weight is to eat less salt, i.e. to reduce one's sodium intake, and to eat plenty of fruit and vegetables.

Lose weight by eating less salt! Go on! - Try it!
See my website www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk
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If you would like to ask me a question or would like further advice, or if you would like to help me in my mission, I can be emailed from my website.

If, despite what I have written above, you still believe that obesity is caused by overeating then read my blog entry http://aboutsalt.blogspot.com/2006_11_01_archive.html

Obese/Overweight women force up rate of caesarean births

Obese women force up rate of caesarean births

Extract:

"Overweight women are driving up the number of babies born by caesarean section, which stands at almost one in four of all births, statisticians said yesterday.

Being overweight or obese increases the risks of problems in labour and caesarean rates show no sign of declining.

In 1995 the rate was 16.6 per cent and last year it was up to 23.2 per cent.

At the same time obesity in women has become much more common, with 21 per cent of women obese compared with 16.5 per cent in 1995.

The Office of Health Economics (OHE), which published its annual Compendium of Health Statistics yesterday, said that each caesarean delivery cost the NHS twice as much as a normal birth.

The health service could save £1 million for every 800 caesareans compared with births that are normal and uncomplicated."

Remember - obesity is caused by fluid retention, which is in turn usually caused by salt/sodium retention, and pregnant women are particularly at risk of these problems, and also of raised blood pressure, if they eat salt or salty food during pregnancy. For further information, see http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/pregnant_mothers.html

To cut down on caesareans, therefore, pregnant women should be being advised to minimise their salt/sodium intake during pregnancy.

Sharp rise in under-16 pregnancy rates in England

Sharp rise in under-16 pregnancy rates

Extracts:

"Hundreds more girls aged 15 or younger are getting pregnant despite a multi-million pound Government campaign.

Official statistics show that 7,464 girls under the age of 16 – some as young as 13 — fell pregnant in England in 2005, a rise of 283 on 2004. The age of consent is 16.

Nearly six in 10 ended in abortion.

The numbers translate to an increase in the rate of under-age pregnancies per 1,000 girls of four per cent, the biggest single annual increase for 10 years. "

"The Family Education Trust, a charity, said: "The Government's teenage pregnancy strategy is failing. Sex education and handing out contraception to young people without their parents' knowledge may be giving the green light to sexual experimentation.""

Pregnancy hormone reverses MS damage - The New Scientist has an article about prolactin and multiple sclerosis

Pregnancy hormone reverses MS damage

Extract:

"A hormone produced during pregnancy could reverse some of the neurological damage associated with multiple sclerosis, a mouse study suggests.

The finding could help explain why women with MS suffer fewer symptoms during pregnancy. And the results suggest that the hormone - prolactin - might one day be used to treat people with the disorder."

Women who donate their eggs for fertility research are at risk from life-threatening side effects, University of Padua scientists warn in a new study.

Fertility research drugs put egg donors at risk

Extract:

"Women who donate their eggs for research are at risk from life-threatening side effects, scientists warn in a new study.

They say that the powerful drugs given to the volunteers to help increase the number of eggs they produce can cause paralysis, limb amputation and even death.

The warning comes days before the results of a review into a controversial decision to allow doctors to harvest eggs from healthy volunteers for research purposes.

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) is expected to endorse its policy, which provoked an outcry when it was announced last year. But the safety of egg donation is questioned by Italian experts.

In their study, 34 women suffered severe reactions to the hormone-stimulating drugs used. The researchers, at the University of Padua, found that most of those affected had previously enjoyed good health. An analysis of doctors' reports since the early 1990s revealed that 60 per cent of the accidents involved blood clots in the head and neck.

The study, in the journal Thrombosis and Thrombolysis, concludes that the number of side effects would rise as the number of assisted reproduction techniques increased and that doctors using the drugs need a better understanding of the potential risks."


Obesity is one factor that reduces fertility, and obesity is caused/initiated by fluid retention and salt sensitivity. A completely safe and very healthy way for women to increase their fertility, therefore, is to reduce their intake of salt/sodium.

Remember: Obesity is not caused by eating too much. - Since it is usually caused/initiated by salt sensitivity and fluid retention, and is best reduced by abandoning the calorie myth and concentrating on cutting down on salt/sodium intake and eating plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables.
Dieting is potentially harmful. Lose weight by eating less salt! - Go on! - Try it! - See my website http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/
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See also http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/pregnant_mothers.html

Proposed alcoholic drink label 'warning to pregnant mothers'

Drink label 'warning to pregnant mothers'

Extract

"Wine, beer and spirits should carry words and pictures to warn expectant mothers of the risk they run of damaging their unborn child even if they drink only occasionally, the National Organisation on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome said.

Campaigners said that drinking during pregnancy could leave children mentally impaired, cause serious physical disabilities and even heart problems.

Despite the risks, nearly two thirds of women (61 per cent) drink at some stage during their pregnancy, according to the charity.

It believes that there should be a "zero tolerance" approach towards drinking while pregnant because of the magnitude of the risks.

Its warning comes amid widespread concern about the growing culture of binge-drinking among many young women.

The organisation, which held its annual conference in London yesterday, said that drink labelling with warnings aimed at women was already available in America, France and Finland."

Pregnant mothers should also be advised to reduce their salt intake to a minimum, both for the sake of their own health and that of the baby. See http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/pregnant_mothers.html