Download the updated Eating Well for New Mums resource – for free or by donation – at the link in our bio.

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Here are a few nutritious recipes found in our Eating Well for New Mums guide that can be prepared as simple snacks to enjoy throughout the day:
🥕 Baguette with houmous, and carrot and cucumber sticks
🥒 Oatcakes, celery sticks with humous and milk
🍅 Pitta bread pizza

New mums may find they have less time to prepare food, but it’s important that they get the energy and nutrients that they need, even if they end up having more frequent, smaller snacks rather than main meals.

Updates reflect the changing, challenging context in which new mums are trying to eat well and changes to services and support like the Healthy Start scheme. Edits have also been made to advice around plant milks and supplements, in line with latest SACN recommendations and NICE guidelines.

It includes ideas for snacks and drinks that provide a range of important nutrients and complements our other resources that give practical ideas for eating well in pregnancy and for the whole family.

See the First Steps Nutrition Trust website: www.firststepsnutrition.org/what-you-can-do

You can read the full BMJ article here: doi.org/10.1136/bmj....

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We have compiled a list of suggestions for what healthcare professionals can do to challenge such conflicts of interest, especially where the inappropriate marketing of breastmilk substitutes including commercial milk formulas targets health professionals.

"...this creates a conflict of interest that can undermine the independence and integrity of journals through an implicit bias in the content they publish.”

Our Senior Nutritionist @Dr Katie Pereira-Kotze said: “There is much evidence to show that sponsorship from industry introduces a commercial influence of the content that journals publish and share..."

Conflicts of interest like this are violations of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes. Sponsorships can lead attendees to believe that the conference, journals and the professionals involved, endorse certain products or brands.

The conference is organised by Mark Allen Group – which also takes money for advertising of formula milk in journals it publishes, including the British Journal of Midwifery and Journal of Family and Child Health.

❗ It highlights the conflict of interest in an upcoming conference on allergies, which is sponsored by formula companies Kendamil and Nutricia.

The Food Standards Agency states that some imported products, particularly from the US, may contain unauthorised additives or lack proper allergen labelling and urge importers of products to ensure they meet UK food safety standards: www.food.gov.uk/business.../...

It is best to AVOID ‘the Southampton Six’: Sunset Yellow (E110), Quinoline Yellow (E104), Carmoisine (E122), Allura Red (E129), Tartrazine (E102) and Ponceau 4R (E124). The FSA has advised food producers to withdraw these additives. You can read our 2020 report on food colours here: bit.ly/48v7J0X