A recent study carried out by researchers at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) and published in the British Medical Journal affirms that a diet based on fruits, vegetables, whole grains and some fish , considerably reduces the risk of premature birth in women. pregnant women.
The researchers conducted a questionnaire with 66,000 pregnant women in which they asked what type of food and drink they had been eating since they found out they had become pregnant. Apart from analyzing these data, they also accessed other information such as lifestyle, education, income, weight, physical activity, alcohol consumption, as well as family medical history of premature births.
Examining all this volume of information found that pregnant women who followed a healthy diet had about a 15% lower risk of preterm birth than those who followed a normal diet, without many restrictions.
"This is the first time that we can statistically link healthy eating habits to reduce the risk of preterm birth," says Linda Englund-Ögge, a researcher at the University of Gothenburg.
