Best-practice guidance and management of pregnant and postpartum elite athletes and
women in arduous occupations is limited by the lack of high-quality evidence available …

Background dietary intake before and during pregnancy has significant health outcomes for
both mother and child, including a healthy gestational weight gain. To ensure effective …

Objectives. We investigated the relationship between childbirth and 5-year incidence of
obesity. Methods. We performed a prospective analysis of data on 2923 nonobese …

Background: The postpartum period may be critical for the development of midlife obesity.
Identifying factors associated with postpartum weight change could aid in targeting women …

Background Postpartum weight retention affects many women and increases the risk of
becoming overweight. The research objective was to study modifiable factors contributing to …

Objectives To evaluate the effects of a counselling intervention on excessive weight gain
during pregnancy and postpartum weight retention. Design The New Life (style) study was a …

Obesity has progressively become a global epidemic that constitutes one of the biggest
current health problems worldwide. Pregnancy is a risk factor for excessive weight gain …

The perinatal period, from early in the first trimester to 1 year postpartum, provides
opportunities for novel public health interventions to reduce obesity disparities. We present a …

OBJECTIVE—While high parity is hypothesized to be associated with insulin resistance and
type 2 diabetes, few studies have examined this association in diverse racial samples or …

Background Postpartum weight retention may contribute to the development of obesity. We
studied whether individual counselling on diet and physical activity from 2 to 10 months …