Nutrition and Diet Tips

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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