Women's health

How to Avoid Gestational Diabetes

Women entertaining the notion of motherhood should start working out now.

University of Washington researchers surveyed 688 mothers and found that those who performed the most vigorous exercise during the year before pregnancy were 81 percent less likely than their sedentary peers to develop gestational diabetes, a condition linked to abnormally large babies and difficult labor.

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