New Moms. Research finds Mediterranean diet brings fewer pregnancy woes

BEANS, beans, they are good for your heart … the more you eat, the healthier you and your unborn children are likely to be.

University of Queensland researchers interviewed women enrolled in the longitudinal study on women’s health about their diet.

They were categorised into four dietary groups: meat, high fat, high sugar diet and Mediterranean diet.

These groups were characterised by vegetables, legumes, nuts, tofu, rice, pasta, rye bread, red wine and fish; the fruit and low-fat dairy diet and cooked vegetable pattern with high consumption of cooked potato, cauliflower, carrots, pumpkin and peas.

The study followed up with more than 3500 women who then became pregnant and delivered at least one live birth between 2003 and 2012.

Those on a Mediterranean diet had a 42 per cent lower risk of developing a pregnancy complication.