Why do people freak out when you mention diet and pregnancy in the same sentence?
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I posted two questions last week where I happened to mention being on a healthy diet and exercise plan for pregnancy. A lot of people freaked out. I got comments like “diet and pregnancy shouldn’t even be mentioned in the same sentence” and “you’ll put your baby under undue pressure”. Are people really that trained to only associate the word diet with cutting food and deprivation that they can’t even recognize when it is being used to describe healthy eating habits? Do we no longer realize that the formal definition for diet is “food and drink regularly provided or consumed ” or “habitual nourishment”? What are your thoughts? When you hear the word diet do you think of “dieting” or do you use it as a word to describe ones eating behavior or patterns?
To even further clarify, in my previous questions I clearly stated “If I continue to eat right and exercise at an appropriate level”. I did use the word diet, but given the context in which it was written it would not have been difficult to understand the way in which it was being used.
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I posted two questions last week where I happened to mention being on a healthy diet and exercise plan for pregnancy. A lot of people freaked out. I got comments like “diet and pregnancy shouldn’t even be mentioned in the same sentence” and “you’ll put your baby under undue pressure”. Are people really that trained to only associate the word diet with cutting food and deprivation that they can’t even recognize when it is being used to describe healthy eating habits? Do we no longer realize that the formal definition for diet is “food and drink regularly provided or consumed ” or “habitual nourishment”? What are your thoughts? When you hear the word diet do you think of “dieting” or do you use it as a word to describe ones eating behavior or patterns?
To even further clarify, in my previous questions I clearly stated “If I continue to eat right and exercise at an appropriate level”. I did use the word diet, but given the context in which it was written it would not have been difficult to understand the way in which it was being used.
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Dieting is so vastly used and known as a means to lose weight in today’s society that as soon as most people hear it they think Pregnant girl=dieting=malnutrition for baby. But I totally get what you are saying. You are simply eating a HEALTHY DIET OF FOOD and there is absolutely nothing wrong with keeping in shape during your pregnancy. It will make the labour easier. BUT , don’t over do it and make sure you are letting your doctor know what you are doing. As long as he’s cool with it, have fun. And by the way, congrats!
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You’ve got to be thickskinned on this site because sometimes people will tear into before you know it.
You’re right on target though, they only think of diet as dieting and nothing else.
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i suppose because they associate pregnancy with weight gain, so a diet may look to them as mal-nutrition, so they think the baby will be harmed, r born too little. I suppose that if the diet is balanced and the execise adequate it will be even better for the baby. remember always consult your doctor (gineco-obstretritian) regarding diet and exercise when pregnant.
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When I hear the word “diet,” the first thing that pops into my head is a radical change in food intake in order to lose weight.
I am sure that is the word association with most people.
That is how the word “diet” has come to be used in most cases, in my opinion.
If you had said “I am eating healthy” without using the word diet…no one would have reacted. You cannot blame them for such a reaction, however. Language is a growing and living thing..and “formal definitions” are often not the most common definitions of words..i.e. the word “Gay.”
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I think it depends on the culture to which people belong. I think that the media continously makes you watch tons of commercials about how you can lose weight almost miracolously. So most of the people will relate the word diet with dieting, specially cause in the US, the overweight is a big health problem. But in other parts when u say diet, you think about trying to have an equilibrium in the things you eat, so that you will not develop any condition due to that.
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I see the word diet as a regular habitual conmsumption of food. But I can see how a lot of people could see it as “malnutrition”. I feed my kids a healthy diet of primarily meat and vegetables, but they still get sugar, and sweets. I don’t withhold food from them, or myself for that matter. We eat good balanced meals, but we occasionally splurge on sweets.
When I do “diet” because I want to drop 10 pounds, I don’t call it dieting, I call it hell on earth.