{"id":4026,"date":"2026-03-10T11:02:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/?p=4026"},"modified":"2026-03-24T11:04:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:04:19","slug":"geisel-study-links-planetary-health-diet-during-pregnancy-to-healthier-birth-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/2026\/03\/10\/geisel-study-links-planetary-health-diet-during-pregnancy-to-healthier-birth-outcomes\/","title":{"rendered":"Geisel Study Links Planetary Health Diet During Pregnancy to Healthier Birth Outcomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"76\" data-end=\"567\">Leyre Notario Barandiaran, MPH, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in the Epidemiology Department at Dartmouth\u2019s Geisel School of Medicine working with Margaret Karagas, recently shared findings from a new study examining whether following a planetary health\u2013style diet during pregnancy influences preterm birth and infant size at birth. The results, published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S000291652600050X?via%3Dihub\"><em data-start=\"472\" data-end=\"512\">American Journal of Clinical Nutrition<\/em><\/a>, draw on data from the New Hampshire Birth Cohort, a long-running study of maternal and child health.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"569\" data-end=\"918\">The study found that greater adherence to the EAT-Lancet Planetary Health Diet\u2014a plant-forward dietary pattern designed to support both human and environmental health\u2014was associated with healthier birth outcomes, including longer gestational duration, healthier birth weights, and a lower risk of preterm birth.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the full article from Geisel School of Medicine here:<br data-start=\"983\" data-end=\"986\" \/><a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2026\/geisel-study-links-planetary-health-diet-during-pregnancy-to-healthier-birth-outcomes\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"986\" data-end=\"1169\">Read the Geisel news article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leyre Notario Barandiaran, MPH, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in the Epidemiology Department at Dartmouth\u2019s Geisel School of Medicine working with Margaret Karagas, recently shared findings from a new study examining whether following a planetary health\u2013style diet during pregnancy influences preterm birth and infant size at birth. The results, published in [\u2026] <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"more_link clearfix\" href=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/2026\/03\/10\/geisel-study-links-planetary-health-diet-during-pregnancy-to-healthier-birth-outcomes\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":369,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","author-369"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paQAoO-12W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/369"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4029,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026\/revisions\/4029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}