Natural Family Blog Archive 🌹 The First 20 Years

The Brewer Pregnancy Diet Web Site!
Joy Jones has put together an excellent site to teach families how to use the Brewer Diet Properly. Please, if you do nothing else during your pregnancy, learn this diet, put it into practice, and then stand back and watch your body do the amazing work of building your healthy child!

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It was during my three years in New York that I met Tom and Gail Brewer. Janice was a friend of Gail’s, and I believe that they were both active in the Childbirth Education Association of Metropolitan New York (CEAMNY). In any case, Tom and Gail were invited to present a weekend-long workshop about the Brewer Diet, sponsored by the CEAMNY, and I decided to attend.
I don’t remember how it was that Tom and I started talking about the design for a poster of how his diet works in preventing problems in pregnancy, but I do remember how impressed I was with the validity of the science behind the simplicity of his diet plan. During the process of designing the poster*, and later that of writing a pamphlet for use as a simple handout, I came to understand the diet better, and develop a kind of friendship with the man. In later years, I appreciated his readiness to answer my questions, and how available he was by phone. Occasionally, I would receive letters from him in the mail–xeroxed copies of whatever pregnancy and nutrition development was in the news, and happened to be on his mind at the time. In the margins, he would write copious notes all about studies that contradicted whatever was written in the article. I felt for him in his frustration that a solution as simple as eating could be so hard to accept, for many of his peers and others in the health field.
Since then, I’ve had two babies of my own and have done many other things in the field of pregnancy and childbirth. But throughout it all, I’ve continued to reach out to pregnant women with the Brewer Diet, and have felt the gratification of seeing them turn their complications around with something as simple as eating.
Jenny Hatch