What to Expect During Your Second Trimester
Congratulations you are at the beginning of your second trimester!
“At the beginning of the second trimester, babies are about 3 1/2 inches long and weigh about 1 1/2 ounces. Tiny, unique fingerprints are now in place, and the heart pumps 25 quarts of blood a day. You’re likely to feel kicks and flutters soon if you haven’t already.”
Week 14
This week you baby is more fluid in his/her movements as they reposition their arms. Your baby’s intestines are producing meconium, the waste that will make up your baby’s first bowel movement after birth.
Your baby is now the size of a peach!
Week 15
This week, your baby...
Source: Cord Blood News - March 13, 2017 Category: Perinatology & Neonatology Authors: Maze Cord Blood Tags: babies parents pregnancy second trimester Source Type: blogs
Foods that Nourish, Replenish and Repair
The food we eat serves many purposes. It satisfies a primal need to fuel our bodies and quell hunger. It connects us to family and friends in lovely ways, during the holidays, in social situations and at the nightly dinner table. It encourages us to be creative, to try new things, explore different cultures, and savor interesting tastes. And it comforts us, at least temporarily, when we are lonely, sad, anxious or otherwise spent.
Food has another very important purpose: it cleanses, repairs, replenishes our body at the most basic cellular level. In fact, the latest research from the field of nutrigenomics[1], reve...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - August 25, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Day 4 of Digest Super Week: The supertaster who researches supertasting
Professor Charles Spence
Charles Spence: I study supertasters
Everyone would like to be a supertaster, right? “Supertaster” is the name given to those individuals (roughly a quarter of the population) who are more sensitive than the rest to tastes, especially to the bitter taste in foods such as Brussels sprouts, endive salad, and coffee. It is worth noting that not everyone who you might imagine being a supertaster, is. Jeffrey Steingarten, for example, the famous North American food critic turned out to be a non-taster when I gave him a tasting strip (the simplest way to assess taster status in the lab). It turns...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - October 10, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christian Jarrett Source Type: blogs
