“ Eating Healthy During Pregnancy !”

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Starting off your with a healthy wellbalanced diet is the best thing you do for yourselfand your baby. This way, you'll only need to makea few adjustments during your pregnancy.

Your first trimester

If you find it tough to maintain a balanced diet during your first trimester, you can rest assuredthat your not alone. Due to queasiness, some women will eat all of the time and gain a lot of weight in the process. Other women have troublegetting food down and subsequently lose weight.

Preventing malnutrition and dehydration are yourmost important factors during first trimester.

Calories

When you are pregnant, you need to consume around300 calories more than usual every day. The bestway to go about doing this is listening to your body when you are hungry. You should try to eatas many foods as possible from the bottom of thefood pyramid.

If you gain weight too slow, try eating small meals and slightly increase the fat in your diet.You should always eat when you are hungry, as youare now eating for 2 instead of one.

Calcium

By the second trimester, you'll need around 1,500milligrams of calcium each day for your bones andyour baby', which is more than a quart of milk. Calcium is something that's missing from many diets. Along with milk, other great sources forcalcium include dairy products, calcium fortifiedjuices, and even calcium tablets.

Fiber

Fiber can help to prevent constipation, which isa common pregnancy problem. You can find fiber in whole grains, fruits, and even vegetables. Fibersupplements such as Metamucil and Citrucel are safe to take during pregnancy.

Protein

Unless you happen to be a strict vegetarian, yourprotein intake is not normally a problem for womenwho eat a healthy diet.

Iron

A lot of women will start their pregnancy off witha bit of iron deficiency. Good sources of iron include dark leafy green vegetables and meats. Ironsupplements should be avoided, as they can causeinternal symptoms such as cramping, constipation,or diarrhea.

Vitamins

Seeing as how you get a majority of the vitamins youneed in your diet, you may want to discuss prenatalvitamins with your doctor. Folate is one of the mostimportant, and if you are getting enough of it, youmay be able to avoid vitamins all together - just askyour doctor to make sure.

Healthy Grocery Shopping

Grocery shopping is something we all have to do, eventhough choosing the right foods can be very hard indeed. To assist you with your healthy groceryshopping, the tips below can indeed help make thingseasier than ever before:

1. Never go grocery shopping on an empty stomach.

2. Select canned fruits and tuna that are packed inwater, not oil or syrup.

3. Look at the labels for the words "hydrogenated"or "partially hydrogenated". The earlier you seethem appear on the list, the higher the amount ofunhealthy trans fatty acids the food will contain.

4. Don't buy turkey with the skin on it, and if you plan to buy chicken - buy a chicken breastmeal.

5. When you select frozen dinners, select those that are not only low in fat, but low in sodiumand cholesterol as well.

6. If you aren't consuming enough dairy products,go with calcium fortified orange juice instead.

7. Go for whole grain breads, cereals, and rolls.

8. Give cantaloupe a try. With just 95 calories,half of the melon will provide more than a day'ssupply of Vitamin C and beta carotene.

9. Don't be tricked into buying yogurt covered by nuts or raisins, as the coating is normallymade of sugar and partially hydrogenated oils.

10. Get some of the low fat treats, such as pretzels, ginger snaps, and angel food cake.

By following the above tips when grocery shopping,you'll avoid the bad foods and get those that youneed. There are many different healthy foods atthe grocery store, all it takes is the will powerto go past the bad foods and on to the good ones.

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