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Pregnant women are said to be eating for two or sometimes three.

How can they maximize the health benefits of their diet? This is the People's Pharmacy with

Terry and Joe Grady.

A large study has shown that women following a Mediterranean diet during pregnancy are less likely to encounter complications.

We'll talk with one of the researchers to find out what the

diet entails.

It's not just what you eat, but how you eat that matters. Why should pregnant women embrace mindful eating?

Can the rest of us benefit from this approach?

What would it take for you to change the way you eat?

Coming up other people's pharmacy,

Mindfulness and a Mediterranean diet while eating for two. In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, to get the most robust response from an immunization,

it'd be smart to get a good night's sleep.

A meta-analysis published in current biology

compared responses to influenza and hepatitis vaccinations.

Men who slept more than seven hours at a significantly stronger immune response

than those who slept less than six.

In analyzing seven studies with information on sleep duration and immune response, the researchers found a clear

link between objectively measured sleep and antibody response. In adults between 18 and 60, people sleeping less than six hours

had significantly lower antibodies. This reduction was about equivalent to

what one would see maybe two months after a vaccination due to

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