ABSTRACT
Changes in diet and eating behaviour are an essential part of the stereotypical image of pregnancy, but surprisingly little research has concentrated on what women actually eat and why. Pregnant women are typically depicted as being plagued by strange and irresistible cravings as well as having aversions to certain foods. Nausea, familiarly, though inaccurately, known as `morning sickness', is seen to be characteristic of pregnancy and in popular culture is regularly depicted as the earliest somatic symptom.
