# Thomas Brewer

Obstetrician; nutrition and the prevention of toxemia in pregnancy · 1924–2005

American obstetrician who argued that toxemia of late pregnancy — preeclampsia and eclampsia — is a disease of malnutrition preventable by adequate protein and calories. His book Metabolic Toxemia of Late Pregnancy and the Brewer pregnancy diet underpin the bioenergetic view of nutrition during gestation.

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## In their own words

> Iatrogenic starvation in human pregnancy has a long and ignoble history in the United States

Pregnancy · Iatrogenic Starvation in Human Pregnancy · 1974

> There remains absolutely no significant recognition of the role of prenatal malnutrition, especially of protein-calorie (p-c) deficiency, in the etiology and pathogenesis of metabolic toxemia of late pregnancy.

Malnutrition · Nutritional Nonchalance in Modern Obstetrics: A Case Report · 2001

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## Books

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- Metabolic Toxemia of Late Pregnancy: A Disease of Malnutrition (1966)
- What Every Pregnant Woman Should Know: The Truth About Diet and Drugs in Pregnancy (1977)