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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.