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Pregnant women are each to receive ??120 from the Government in a bid to encourage them to eat healthily and improve the health prospects of their unborn child. The plan for a ‘health in pregnancy’ grant will be outlined by Health Secretary Alan Johnson this week in his first major speech outlining how the government plans to tackle the yawning health divide between the richest and poorest in England and Wales.
A Department of Health spokesman said: “It is something that would be put in place in conjunction with health professionals who already visit pregnant women with healthy diet advice.”

Charities welcomed the idea but warned it may not be effective. Critics of the bonus, which will be paid to middle-class mothers as well as poorer families, are likely to say that the money may just be wasted because there is nothing to prevent pregnant women spending it on drink, cigarettes, chocolate or even clothes. For example, there is no measure to ensure the cash is spent on healthy food and babies also need good nutrition before 29 weeks.
What makes this scheme absurd is the fact that the money will be allocated when women are seven months’ pregnant (the words “stable door” and “bolted” come to mind) and will be paid similarly to child benefit.
John Jenkins from British Medical Association Cymru said, ???We want to see the evidence that this will improve the nutrition of mothers and babies.
“The majority of pregnant women who want to eat properly do so. A grant of this kind for them is inappropriate. Some pregnant women choose not to eat fruit and vegetables. Unless they are forced to spend their money on nutritious food then neither mother nor baby will benefit.”

For most middle-class families it is pretty much as batty as if Alan Johnson, the Health Secretary, had asked mummy out for a date at the Ivy restaurant. And we doubt that those nice organic companies who leave boxes full of wholesome produce on doorsteps throughout my locale of Cambridge deliver to, say, the tower blocks of Peckham.
And even if a cash-strapped mother uses this money as it is intended, will it help her locate produce that has not been sprayed to within an inch of its life with carcinogenic pesticides? We doubt it.
To get the payment, however, a woman would have to meet with a health professional for tips on pregnancy health and welfare advice. A spokeswoman for the National Childbirth Trust said: “This proposal sounds good in principle – nutrition in pregnancy is very important.
“However, the logistics of the scheme need to concentrate on ensuring that the funding directly benefits women and their babies nutritionally.”

Fruit and vegetable, despite all the hype, provide very little in the way of nutrition and health products. Fruit for example, provides sugar, vitamin C and certain other anti-oxidents. Sugar is a serious health problem, linked to infections, which it feeds, tooth-decay and heart disease and many other ills, and also, via fructose, drains the body of that most important mineral : magnesium (health spas are almost always magnesium wells). Vitamin C has proven, finally, to be an ‘ordinary’ vitamin, inneffective at all that has in the past be claimed for it. Anti-oxidents, much hyped, are leaving contradictory effects in actual studies.
Vegetables, which is defined by the government as excluding potatoes, appear to only have the property of reducing carbohydrate intake since almost all are ultra-low in cabs. As for nutrition, they barely give a thing, and what they give is not very bio-available.
The single most nutritional substance is meat, and the wonder food is liver. But people now think they are toxic.

Women find:

• a pregnant woman nacked without anything