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Can Overweight Pregnant Women Diet to Restrict Their Weight Gain?

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More than 50 percent of women in childbearing age are overweight or obese. MOMfit, a new Northwestern Medicine study, helped pregnant women restrict their weight gain by maintaining a healthy diet and lifestyle throughout pregnancy.

MOMfit participants gained about four pounds less than the control group throughout their pregnancies with no adverse outcomes to the infants.
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Good Health: High Blood Pressure and being overweight

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The connection between being overweight and having high blood pressure has always been there. One patient is learning the benefits of lowering her blood pressure.
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Holly Firfer helps explain how to control your high blood pressure through diet.