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Gestational diabetes is a medical condition that affects blood sugar levels in the body. These sugar levels originate from the foods that we eat. When we sit down to a meal each day the food is digested into its smallest parts so the cells in our body can use them. Many of the foods we eat turn into simple sugars. These sugars need insulin to be transported across the cell wall so the cells can use them for energy. In the condition of gestational diabetes the body becomes resistant to the insulin and then cant use the sugar in the body for energy. Gestational diabetes is very much like type 2 diabetes or what used to be called adult-onset diabetes. A vegetarian diet and gestational diabetes arent mutually exclusive. In fact eating a vegetarian diet and gestational diabetes may be just what the doctor ordered to help maintain appropriate blood sugar levels and control the gestational diabetes so that the mother and baby dont suffer the complications often associated with diabetes that i...

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