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Pregnant women give birth to bigger and heavier babies when they take
supplements of multivitamins and minerals during pregnancy, studies show.
As far back as 2005, the leading medical journal The Lancet published a
study of 1,200 women showing that babies of mothers who had been given
supplements of multivitamins and minerals weighed on average 77 grams more
than babies of mothers who had only been given iron and folic acid.
A follow-up of 917 of the babies from this study, recently published in
The Lancet, confirms these results. 462 of the children were born by
mothers who took multivitamins and minerals, while 455 had mothers who
took iron and folic acid. The children of multivitamin and mineral users
weighed on average 204 grams more than children from the other group
(10.9/10.7 kilograms). Also, these children were bigger, measured by the
circumference of their heads, chests and upper arms.
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