Pregnant womens diets are a priority
Both the nutrients endorsed in these reports are safe. Providing them to pregnant women, by any means, would be cheap. The savings to the NHS and the Treasury would be enormous. Improving the diets of pregnant women should be top of the agenda for the new cabinet committee on health and wellbeing.It is a political cliche to assert that the future of the nation lies with its children. Politicians should equally appreciate that the future of children depends on the diets of their mothers in pregnancy.
Professor J T Winkler
Director, Nutrition Policy Unit, London Metropolitan University
