For women going all the way, nutrition became a more dominant part of their lives.
It became more salient, a subject of pre-occupation and deliberate supervision. These women tried to live precisely by the book. This applied both to pregnancy-specific nutrition-related guidelines, such as taking folic acid and cutting out alcohol, cigarettes, raw meat and unpasteurised cheeses, and to more general nutritional issues, such as ensuring that they consumed more dairy products, juices and vegetables instead of their previously more unhealthy alternatives.