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Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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When a woman learns that she is pregnant, she necessarily needs more vitamins. In fact now it is necessary to feed both the kid, and itself useful substances. More about this - in our material.
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Nutrition of the pregnant woman: needs
If you eat wrong, no doctor will help you give birth to a healthy and strong baby. This means that your arsenal should be as balanced as possible. It should contain all the necessary vitamins and minerals. Then the child will take everything you need from the mother's body and will develop well.
Take note: Mom, who admitted a deficiency of nutrients in the body, will necessarily get consequences from this. A child can be born sickly, unhealthy, with impaired functions of many organs.
In addition, improper diet leads to mandatory negative consequences of health and the most future mother.
With a deficiency of calcium
Mom can begin to drop out hair and teeth, and nails break much faster. If you fall, you are more likely to get a bone fracture than a person who has everything in perfect order with calcium in the body.
If a future mother has iron deficiency
Then anemia can develop - quite simply, anemia. The woman becomes pale, can experience attacks of nausea, she has a poor appetite, which necessarily negatively affects the health of the baby's future.
Correct food for pregnant women
Useful vitamins come to us from the food. This is the main condition for the health of the future mother and her baby. Therefore, the diet should be varied and in the right dosages. It must contain fats, which some for some reason refuse, afraid to get well (and fat contains a large number of vitamins), and proteins for the growth of tissues and muscles, and carbohydrates, which are charged with energy for the whole day.
Should I say that food for a pregnant woman should only be freshly prepared, and fresh vegetables and fruits should not be stored for a long time, as they lose the lion's share of their vitamins.
If the food is cooked poorly and as a result of heat treatment has lost a lot of its useful properties, then the child perceives such food much more strongly than the mother - in fact he is still very weak and defenseless. And then the poisoning of the fetus or its incorrect development can occur.
How to prepare products for pregnant women?
As for meat and fish of different varieties - they should not be left raw to avoid infections. That is, to wait for complete readiness, and only then eat.
The best way to cook meat or fish is baking. This can be done in foil or a special sleeve. Then the products will not dehydrate, they will lose a minimum of their useful properties and retain all their best taste qualities.
Remember that cooking is a very good way of cooking meat and fish in terms of their low caloric content. That is, when cooking meat, it does not gain such a mass of calories, as, for example, during cooking.
But! All useful substances and vitamins are 80% retained in water, in meat they are destroyed. Therefore, the broth should not be poured out - it is nutritious and saturated with vitamins. Just drink it if you do not want to cook soup on it.
Features of some products
It is a question of such products useful for the pregnant woman, as kidneys and a liver. They contain a lot of vitamin B, useful for a pregnant woman, which is responsible for the skin condition, struggles with aging and gives a lot of nutrients to both mother and fetus.
But! The liver and kidneys are the internal organs of animals and birds that have the property of accumulating harmful substances during processing of the products with which these animals and birds feed. And this is not very good for the health of someone who, in turn, uses kidneys and liver. That is a pregnant mother.
Our advice: if you cook kidneys and liver, pour this water. And the product itself, most of the substances from which it passed into this broth, can be eaten without fear.
And one more useful tip: when choosing meat, kidney, liver or heart of animals, be sure to smell them. If the smell does not attract - do not take these products in any case. And the smell is better to recognize not in frozen foods, where it is fuzzy, but in fresh ones.
Be healthy and eat all the necessary vitamins for your health and your child's health!