Pregorexia is a relatively new term used to describe anorexia during pregnancy and just after giving birth. It includes feeling guilty about gaining weight. Affected women try to look slimmer during pregnancy and the puerperium at all costs. This period is not a positive experience for every woman. Many of them, instead of perceiving changes in their body through the prism of the developing fetus, focus primarily on too much, in their opinion, weight gain. - Extra kilos make women unattractive - says Agnieszka Białek-Dratwa, MD, PhD from the Department of Dietetics, Faculty of Health Sciences in Bytom, Medical University of Silesia.
The results of the research of Silesian scientists and students have just been published in the international scientific journal International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH), which publishes the results of scientific research by sc...
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