Health Forum

Very good. When I accompanied my brother's wife to her pregnancy check ups, she was always being advised to eat protein-rich meat every day.

It can be healthy, but it depends. Eating a hamburger is very different from eating lean poultry or fish (avoid fish with a high mercury content). High calorie foods are fine, of course, but you should be choosing foods that are nutrient-rich, not just high in fat. Prenatal vitamins should help cover all the bases, so abstaining from or limiting meat intake shouldn't be a concern as long as you are eating a wide variety of protein-rich and fortified foods (nuts, beans, mock meats, eggs, dairy, legumes, fortified breads, pastas, and so on...). If you are vigilant about your diet, you can be a healthy mum-to-be either way. :)

If you do decide to eat meat during pregnancy, you might scout out your local farmers' market. That way, you'll be able to learn about the source of the meat and its content (hormones, antibiotics, etc.) directly.

a lack of protein is definitely bad during pregnancy (can lead to pre-eclampsia), so if you mainly eat meat for your protein, continue to do so.

You can be perfectly fine as a vegetarian or vegan during pregnancy. You don't need eat meat to give birth to a healthy child.

A vegetarian diet is healthy during pregnancy.

Meat contains fat and cholesterol. Also, people who eat meat often get too much protein, which can lead to other health problems such as calcium loss from the bones.

Greetings! Just talk to your doctor, he can give you some supplements that are safe for the babe.

Greetings! Just talk to your doctor, he can give you some supplements that are safe for the babe.

WHen you are bringing in another life form into this world.. why hurt others by eating meat? It's up to you to make the choices for our health and your babies. Meat is not good for babies, you don't properly digest it among all the other problems that come with.

If you can get iron rich food from elsewhere and already ingest enough protein I wouldn't worry about it.


Eating meat won't kill you child or maim it.

Meat provided the catalyst for human evolution, particularly the growth of the brain.For millions of years ago since our ancestors have been roaming the dry savannas in Africa, humans have been eating meat. Humans wouldn't have the highly developed brains that we have today without eating meat. The calories from meat fueled the expansion of the human brain and, in addition, permitted human ancestors to increase in body size while remaining active and social. Plant foods were relatively scare in Africa and they were low quality with few nutrients but lots of calories. And infants cannot processed enough bulky plant material to get both nutrients for growth and energy for brain development.

Yes. You need the extra iron, high-quality protein, and B-vitamins to give nourishment to the fetus. Whoever told you it was bad must have been a misguided vegan blinded by PETA propaganda.