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New Nutritional Guide for Pregnant, Nursing Moms Announced |
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Written by Regina Sass, Associated Content
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Monday, 29 October 2007 |
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 Acting Secretary of Agriculture Chuck Conner has announced that they have developed a new MyPyramid nutritional guide line for pregnant and breastfeeding mothers. It can be found at MyPyramid.gov. The site provided unique and individualized guidance.
The project is a joint effort of The Department of Agriculture and the George Washington University Medical Center. In addition to helping moms and moms to be, it can also help obstetricians and other health care professionals. MyPyramid has been on line since 2005 and since then, has had more the 3.9 million visitors, so they are confident that the new specialized pyramid will be a tremendous success.
The site was developed by the USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, along with the Food and Nutrition Service's Women, Infants and Children Program and the Department of Health and Human Services, and it follows that latest nutrition guidelines that were established in 2005.
Getting your own personalized MyPyramid Plan for Moms is easy and it can be done in minutes just by following a few simple steps. All a pregnant woman needs to do is to enter her age, height, weight before she became pregnant, their level of physical activity and their due date. A mom who is breastfeeding enters the same information, plus things like the baby's date of birth, and whether or not they are feeding the baby breast milk only or if they are also feeding the baby formula. Once this is done, they will see their personalized plan and it can be downloaded to the computer and printed out in full color.
This is the latest of the personalized nutrition plans on the site and there is one for just about every member of the family such as the MyPyramid Plan and MyPyramid Tracker, MyPyramid for Kids and the Spanish language MiPiramide. The site is far from complete yet. In the next few months, they are planing to add another tool to the site called MyPyramid Menu Planner. It will be very easy to use MyPyramid Menu Planner. It will be based on the recommendations on MyPyramid and will give the user a real time report on food plans.
The site has the support of the American Dietetic Association, who calls it a valuable tool. American Dietetic Association President Connie B. Diekman says that the MyPyramid for Pregnancy and Breastfeeding will be useful to registered dietitians as well as the mom and her physicians, and will help the dietitians work with the moms to develop a plan that will give them the best possible nutrition for the moms and the children.
Click to visit now: http://www.mypyramid.gov/mypyramidmoms/index.html
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