A new study finds, across the board, women with the healthiest diets were far less likely to have had children with birth defects than the women with the poorest-quality diets.
The research, led by doctors at Stanford University School of Medicine, is believed to be the first large study to look at birth-defect risk and the overall quality of women's diets.
The bulk of research on food and birth defects has studied one nutrient at a time.
This study appears this week in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
