Tag: pregnant women

Researchers at Ohio State University in the US set out to determine the relationship between stress and total fat intake, with the broader goal of evaluating an intervention designed to improve the diets of overweight or obese pregnant women. . Through a series of questionnaires and statistical analyses, the team found that two skills associated with thinking—planning and executing those plans—were affected in women with high blood pressure, so these gaps were associated with eating more fat than total quantity. These two abilities are known as executive functions, which are the...