Recently, a client who very seldom gets sick and who is typically quite vigilant about her nutrition told me she got a respiratory infection. This brief post describes what she learned from not sticking with her nutrition guidelines and is meant to be a caution for anyone who finds value in it. Apparently, while the client was feeling quite under the weather, she simply stopped paying attention to her usual,
What Do I Need to Know about Exercise During Pregnancy?
I was completely over-the-top ecstatic to come across an article in this month’s Sports Medicine relating to new recommendations for exercise during pregnancy (Zavorsky & Longo, 2011). My experience during my medical training thus far is that, with pregnant patients just as non-pregnant patients, there is not a whole lot of discussion about exercise intensity. It’s either “it’s safe to exercise, and you should” vs. “it’s not safe to exercise;
