Allan Walker and Courtney Humphries, in their 2006 book entitled The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating During Pregnancy, “argue that good nutrition begins in the womb”( 19) and that “Your role as a potential parent begins with the choices you make during pregnancy” (19). Potential parents must learn to take care of themselves before having children, because again, lack of information can unintentionally cause mothers to make poor decisions during pregnancy that will affect their child's health later in life. Unless you are a pediatrician or nutritionist, the average pregnant mother's knowledge of how much and what types of food she should consume may be woefully inadequate. Thankfully, it is well known in America that drinking alcohol, smoking, or taking drugs is harmful to a baby while in the womb, but a lack of nutritious food can be just as harmful to an unborn child. According to the Association of Nutrition, which is based in London, the article “Maternal nutrition: building foundations for good long-term health” by Cathryn Salisbury and Claire Robertson in 2013, the lowest birth weight and the weight of a child at age one may “be associated with an increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease and a greater prevalence of type 2 diabetes and glucose intolerance” (250). It is necessary to teach our children about nutrition in schools so that we can save them from these specific medical problems