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Nutrients During Pregnancy
When you are pregnant, you have to always remember when you’ve eat that you “must eat for two”.
What nutrients are needed most?
- Folic Acid
- Vitamin D
- Iron
- Calcium
- Zinc
It is present in various foods such as liver, whole grain breads, cereals, beans, peas, leafy vegetables (spinach, chard, beet greens, etc..), Fruit and yeast. It is a water soluble vitamin (which is diluted in the fluids of the body) is required for DNA synthesis, cell division, development of red blood cells, prevention and treatment of anemia during pregnancy. Its deficiency during conception and early months of waiting has been associated with poor birth outcomes, especially defects in the brain and neural tube such as spina bifida (a congenital cleft of one or more arches of the spine, where Leaving the spinal cord as a tumor). These problems develop during the first month after conception, before most women know they are pregnant, so it is important to take folic acid at least one month before conception.
It is fat-soluble (which is diluted in body fat). It is very important to help calcium absorption and distribution. To get it, pregnant women should be exposed to the sun regularly. If this is impossible, with only consume enough milk to meet calcium needs is obtained, because milk is fortified with this vitamin.
Iron carries oxygen to all body tissues, is part of the muscles and the rest is stored in the liver, bone marrow and spleen. Iron has three functions:oxygen transport, energy production in muscle and DNA synthesis .The amount of iron needed by the body increases during the growth stage, women of reproductive age, pregnancy and breastfeeding.
Calcium is the most abundant mineral in the body. The 99% is in bone.
It is necessary for the formation of bone structure of the baby and to maintain strong bones of the mother. The need for calcium is crucial during the last trimester, when formed bones and teeth of the fetus. If the mother’s diet does not replace the necessary calcium, the baby will take the ore that is available from the maternal skeleton, causing bone weakening. Foods consisted calcium, are :milk, yogurt, cheese, greens (spinach, chard, Chinese mustard, etc.) and soybeans. If that does not tolerate dairy products, the woman must take preparations containing calcium, because otherwise your bone structure will be weakened, to remove the baby that much-needed mineral.
The majority of zinc is stored in muscle and is highly concentrated in red and white cells.
It is very important for pregnant women by the functions it performs in the body and must ensure their consumption during the entire period of gestation, to avoid inter alia, the risk that the baby is born with low birth weight.
Diet in pregnancy
Ideally, the mother is prepared several months before conception folic acid supplements, you eat twice as nutrients but without duplicating their caloric intake and, at most, increase your intake by 300 calories a day to compensate for increased organic demand is pregnant.
Weight gain in pregnancy should not exceed 13 kilos, but neither should be obsessed with it, because pregnancy is not the best time to lose weight.
“Healthy food equals healthy pregnancy. If you are expecting a baby does not “eat” two, “Eat for two.” These are two of the key messages that doctors and nutritionists try to transfer pregnant women to ensure their quality of life and the future of girl or boy.
A pregnant woman should control the food you eat to make sure that your child is healthy and she will not win too many “extra kilos, so hard that after removing the body and belly.
It is vital to begin healthy pregnancy, so experts recommend taking folic acid supplements from the very moment when one thinks of having children.
“During pregnancy, food can not miss the bread, cereals and potatoes-the best in his grain varieties, which should represent 70 percent of our diet,” explains Dr. Ignacio Ferrando, Director of Medical Programs Sanitas medical insurance company.
He is an expert stresses the importance of fruits and vegetables, remember to be taken at least five servings a day and fruit juice only counts as one serving, and explains that the key to keeping a perfect pregnancy is to make as balanced a diet possible.
These are the dietary advice of Dr. Ferrando to get along in pregnancy:
• Bring a complete and balanced diet. You have to eat everything: meat, fish, eggs, nuts and legumes, which are food sources of protein, vitamins and minerals. We recommend that you regularly consume milk and fresh dairy products, which provide calcium and protein, although their versions can be picked low in calories or fat.
• Watch out for sugar. Although “nobody minds a sweet”, if you are expecting a child will be better to wait to have the baby because, like fats, sweets should be minimally consumed during pregnancy. Though a couple of chocolates as an occasional reward nor do any harm.
• Control weight. What that during pregnancy “should be eating for two” is not entirely an urban legend. Yes, instead of two chocolates, a woman eats four wins that overweight by then so hard to discard. As a rule, the weight gain in pregnancy should not exceed 13 kilos, but neither should be obsessed with it. Pregnancy is not the best time to lose weight, unless the physician indicates otherwise. The recommended calorie intake is around 2,000 to the last three months of pregnancy.