EBB 194 - Nutrition and Real Food in Pregnancy with Lily Nichols, RDN

Evidence Based Birth®

Rebecca Dekker

Pregnancy, Health & Fitness, Childbirth, Parenting, Birth, Medicine, Kids & Family, Doula, Obstetrician, Midwife

4.6 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

On today's podcast, we're going to talk with Lily Nichols, RDN, about nutrition and real food in pregnancy.

Lily Nichols (she/her) is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Certified Diabetes Educator, researcher, and author with a passion for evidence-based prenatal nutrition. Her work is known for being research-focused, thorough, and critical of outdated dietary guidelines. She is co-founder of the Women's Health Nutrition Academy and the author of two books, Real Food for Pregnancy and Real Food for Gestational Diabetes. Lily’s bestselling books have helped tens of thousands of families, are used in university-level maternal nutrition and midwifery courses, and have even influenced prenatal nutrition policy internationally.

In this episode, we talk about the difference between eating real food and processed food in pregnancy, and the best ways to use nutrition to "stack the deck in your favor" for a lower-risk, healthier pregnancy. Lily talks candidly about the gap between evidence and nutritional practice, the importance of protein and choline in pregnancy, and why blood sugar management is so important in pregnancy.

If you'd like to watch a video of this interview, just visit the EBB YouTube channel here! Or visit our webpage for the transcript.

Resources:

Read the Evidence Based Birth article on Diagnosing Gestational Diabetes at https://ebbirth.com/diagnosinggdm
Visit Lily Nichols' website here: https://lilynicholsrdn.com
Find the books "Real Food for Pregnancy" and "Real Food for Gestational Diabetes" on Amazon or wherever books are sold!
You can also buy "Real Food for Pregnancy" at Lily's shop here
Read Lily's article about protein in pregnancy here: https://lilynicholsrdn.com/protein-requirements-pregnancy/
Read Lily's article about 9 Myths about Gestational Diabetes: https://lilynicholsrdn.com/9-gestational-diabetes-myths/
Visit the Women's Health Nutritional Academy here: https://whnacademy.com/
Join Lily's Gestational Diabetes course here: http://realfoodforgd.com/online-course/
Follow Lily on Instagram @lilynicholsrdn

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi everyone on today's podcast we're going to talk with Lily Nichols about
0:03.6	nutrition and real food in pregnancy.
0:06.2	Welcome to the Evidence-Based Birth podcast. My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse
0:11.1	with my PhD and the founder of Evidence Base Burn.
0:14.8	Join me each week as we work together to get evidence-based information into the hands of families
0:20.4	and professionals around the world.
0:22.8	As a reminder, this information is not medical advice.
0:26.3	See Evibirth.com slash disclaimer for more details.
0:30.3	Hi everyone and welcome to today's episode of the Evidence-based Birth
0:35.5	podcast my name is Rebecca Decker pronouns she her and I will be your host for
0:40.0	today's episode we are so excited to welcome our guest Lily Nichols. Lily Nichols
0:46.8	pronouns she-her is a registered dietician, nutritionist, certified
0:50.9	diabetes educator, researcher, and author with a passion for evidence-based prenatal nutrition.
0:57.0	Lily's work is known for being research-focused, thorough, and critical of outdated dietary guidelines.
1:03.3	She is co-founder of the Women's Health Nutrition Academy
1:06.1	and the author of two books that I personally have read and love,
1:10.2	real food for pregnancy and real food for gestational diabetes.
1:13.6	Lily's best-selling books have helped tens of thousands of families,
1:17.2	are used in university-level maternal nutrition and midwifery courses,
1:21.6	and have even influenced prenatal nutrition policy internationally.
1:25.4	Lily writes at Lily Nicholsardn.com and also is on
1:29.6	Instagram at Lily Nicholsardn. We're so thrilled that you're here Lily.
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