Nutrition and Diet Tips

Without changing his feeding at all, pregnant women should watch what she eats to avoid infections usually not serious but can have serious consequences during this period. What foods are potentially hazardous and the precautions to take?
Listeriosis, toxoplasmosis, that do not succumb to psychosis?

Due to the bacteria listeria, listeriosis results in fever, which can cause unexplained, according to the progress of the pregnancy, miscarriage or premature delivery. Listeria is resistant to temperatures between 4 and 56 ° C, thus it may appear in all the foods you eat without cooking first and that we keep in the refrigerator. A few simple hygiene measures can nevertheless reduce the risk of contamination:

* Avoid soft cheeses or raw milk, grated cheese bags, products purchased from the delicatessen, smoked fish, cold meats raw or cooked raw shellfish.
* Remove precaution cheese rinds.
* Make a habit in your kitchen to wash the work plans, refrigerator and kitchen utensils, wash your hands before eating and to separate raw foods from ready to eat them.
* Skip to accommodate the remains.
* Cook meat well.
* Wash fruits and vegetables. (more…)

Nutrition during pregnancy is one of the main factors we must consider must pay special attention to:

• Folic acid is a vitamin that needs to drink daily. Deficiency leads to anemia, premature detachment of the placenta, infants with low birth weight and some malformations, mostly of the nervous system.
  Although present in many foods, which are subjected to heat during the cooking process makes it possible to destroy, so it is necessary to consume fresh fruits and vegetables without cooking, and, as ordered, take a multivitamin with this vitamin.
• If a pregnant woman has some degree of malnutrition may occur low birth weight, intrauterine growth retardation and fetal or neonatal death. In addition, it increases the risk of heart disease, hypertension and diabetes in adolescence and adulthood.

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