Study: Those who smoke during pregnancy show 'serious dietary inadequacies'

A new study of the diets of pregnant woman has found one-fifth were obese and that those who smoked during pregnancy had "serious dietary inadequacies" that could exacerbate the ill-effects of cigarettes.

The study, written by five academics from University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin and Dublin Institute of Technology, looked at a sample of 502 women, with detailed dietary and supplement information available for 398 women.