Last week I had the pleasure of seeing Nina Planck give a presentation about her new book, “Real Food for Mother and Baby: The Fertility Diet, Eating For Two and Baby’s First Foods.” Nina Planck, a local and traditional foods expert, who created the first farmers’ markets in London and ran the legendary Greenmarkets in NYC, is also a mother and is currently pregnant with twins. Watching her stand before me lecturing for 2 hours straight, 6 months pregnant with twins at the age of 38 (my rough estimate based on her stories), looking as comfortable and powerful as Tina Turner at the Grammy’s and glowing with radiance, I said to myself, “Either I’m looking at Superwoman or this woman clearly knows what she’s talking about when it comes prenatal nutrition. I officially have a new hero.”

And man, the preggers lady really gave it to us straight!

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