Reading Time: 4 minutes Our takeaways: A pregnancy lifestyle vision board helps parents-to-be envision their lifestyles during pregnancy, foresee changes, and adapt & adjust in advance. It also serves as a collection of the knowledge you’ve learned, the decisions you’ve made, and the guardrails that you will mostly stick to when you actually get Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Our takeaways: Many Asian vegetables are rich in folate/folic acid, which can expand your folate intake food sources or provide alternatives for raw veggie intolerant people. Flowering might impact the folate richness of the same vegetable (i.e: choy sum). If there’s no Asian stores around, you might be able to Read more…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Our takeaways: While folic acid is important, don’t forget about other pregnancy vitamins and minerals such as calcium, choline, iron, omega-3 and vitamin D for healthy baby AND mom! Choline plays a role in your fetus’s brain development. It’s important to get choline from your diet because it is not Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Our takeaways Eating fish does make you smarter. Increasing your DHA intake by 1 gram per day would increase your child’s IQ by 1.3 points on average. Fish with higher DHA often contain higher mercury. Only add the fish with high DHA and low mercury to your shopping cart, especially Read more…