Vegetarian Pregnancy: The Definitive Nutritional Guide to Having a Healthy Baby [Paperback]

Sharon K. Yntema (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 1994

A trustworthy guide for women who want to enjoy a healthy pregnancy on a vegetarian diet.

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: McBooks Press; 2nd Printing edition (June 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0935526218
• ISBN-13: 978-0935526219
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,234,576 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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51 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not informative, September 22, 2000

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Renee "Renee" (West Chester, PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Vegetarian Pregnancy: The Definitive Nutritional Guide to Having a Healthy Baby (Paperback)

I was expecting a guide to putting together a balanced diet for myself during pregnancy. I was terribly disappointed. This book is full of opinions, medical and nutritional misinformation, and personal anecdotes. Its main message is that it is OK to follow a vegetarian diet during pregnancy. I knew that before I read the book.

I found "What to Eat When You're Expecting" to be much more helpful. "What to Eat" has plenty of guidelines for putting together a diet that contains the nutrients you need, whether or not you make a vegetarian choice.

35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good information but too much redundancy, October 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Vegetarian Pregnancy: The Definitive Nutritional Guide to Having a Healthy Baby (Paperback)

I am a vegetarian of 15 years and my husband and are trying to get pregnant. I thought that getting as much knowledge as possible on making sure the baby's health was protected was a smart choice. I purchased a few books from Amazon.com and this book left me annoyed. It had good information but could have been condensed to half it's size. She repeated herself throughout the entire book. She added too many personal experiences from others in which she said answered an add that she wrote. To me it was a easy way to write a book. I wish she had researched the issue more and had valid facts instead of so many opinions. The last thing was that throughout the book (almost after every line) she says (See... this and that section). Simply reverting back to previous sections. It just seemed to me that she was filling pages to make a book and not really caring that if the content was truely informational.

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars DANGEROUSLY INACCURATE, June 1, 2003

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M. Jones (Baltimore, MD United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Vegetarian Pregnancy: The Definitive Nutritional Guide to Having a Healthy Baby (Paperback)

I agree that this book is poorly organized -- but on top of that, the information in it isn't even true! For example, she claims that tofu has 20 grams of protein for four ounces-- not on this planet. In reality it's about half of that, about 9-13 grams. Same deal with beans-- she says 22 grams of protein in 1/2 cup of black beans--truth is more like about 7g! She also says that "iron anemia during pregnancy is normal." Yikes!! It's terirbly dangerous and can make you hemorrage during birth! Chuck this book!