Pregnant mother alert: eating too much fruit can cause dystocia

Fruit is always considered as a healthy food. Therefore, many pregnant women have such misunderstanding that the more fruit the better, someone even have fruits as dinner. According to health experts, new research shows that: over taking fruit will cause dystocia.

In general, fruit is rich in carbohydrates, water, cellulose, and a small amount of protein, fat, vitamin A, B and minerals. However, they content less the crude fiber and specific nutrients than green leafy vegetables roots, plus lack vitamin B12, contained incomprehensive amino acid. Long-term reliance on fruit as the sole source of nutrition will lead to a lot of ills, such as anemia, especially to women.

Nutrition experts suggested that pregnant women need to eat a variety of different types of food to achieve nutritional balance. Pregnant women should not use fruit as a main food. One rule should be followed: diverse selection of fresh seasonal products. 1-3 fruits every meal, vegetables, daily intake of 400 grams, including green leafy vegetables should be accounted for 1 / 2.

One serving of fruit after a daily meal will give pregnant women sufficient nutrient. In recent years, according to clinical findings, pregnant women, excessive consumption of fruit is apt to cause hyperlipidemia. In addition, there is an upward trend leading to gestational diabetes. Gestational diabetes is that pregnant women during pregnancy has abnormal glucose metabolism, which results in elevated blood sugar. Usually within two months after giving birth, the blood sugar level will back to normal. Its etiology is in majority because of the poor diet. Excessive eating of fruit is the biggest incentive. If Gestational diabetes is not controlled in time, will first affect the mother's health, then, some patients with gestational diabetes, will have type 2 diabetes after 5 to 10 years. Gestational diabetes is also likely to cause infection during pregnancy, miscarriage, premature birth, stillbirth and polyhydramnios; bringing huge harm to fetus development. Pregnant women with high blood sugar level easily have a huge fetus, which causes birth difficulties, increases dystocia and the likelihood of postpartum hemorrhage and put her life under risk. So, we must be cautious.

Prenatal vitamins

Prenatal vitaminsPrenatal vitamins are vitamin supplements intended to be taken before and during pregnancy and during postnatal lactation. Although not intended to replace a healthy diet, prenatal vitamins provide women of child bearing age with nutrients recognized by the various health organizations including the American Dietetic Association as helpful to for a healthy pregnancy outcome.

Prenatal vitamins are similar to other multivitamins, but do contain different amounts of specific nutrients to better suit the needs of an expecting mother. Vitamins such as folic acid, calcium and iron are in higher concentrations while nutrients such as Vitamin A are reduced to reflect the current understanding of the role that these compounds play in fetal development.

The increase dosage of folic acid or folates refects the American Dietetic Associations position that women should consume “400 μg per day of synthetic folic acid from fortified foods (cereals and other grains), supplements or both, in addition to consuming folate from foods in a varied diet.” Often prenatal vitamins also have a reduced dosage of vitamins that may be detrimental to the fetus when taken in high doses (such as Vitamin A). Prenatal vitamins are available both over the counter in retail stores as well as by prescription from medical professionals. Although prescription vitamins are often covered by insurance, the relative potency of prescription-grade products are typically not significantly different than those available through retail. Differences in prescription versus retail vitamins do however exist in consistency and quality level, as well as the relative bioavailability of some specific ingredients. For example, many prescripton prenatal vitamins will contain a more bioavailable form of folate; 5-methyltetrahydrofolate (5-MTHF) also known under the brand Merck pharmaceutical brand, Metafolin.

Many women have difficulty tolerating prenatal vitamins or experience constipation as a result of the high iron content. Due to tolerance challenges, the prenatal vitamin industry has developed a multitude of dosage forms to meet the needs and tolerances of expecting mothers. The most common form of prenatal vitamin is the compressed tablet which is available through all channels and at various quality levels. Category leaders such as Ther-Rx utilize this as the dosage form of choice. Other organizations within the category offer products in a variety of dosage forms such as liquids, prenatal vitamin soft chews, vitamin chewables, and even jellied prenatal vitamins.

In addition to the actual vitamin, many prenatal manufacturers have chosen to include the omega-3 fatty acid, Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in their product, either as an ingredient in the formula, or as a complementary softgel pill. Although explicitly in many formulas to support neural development, the omega-3 fatty acids are used by both mother and fetus to create the phospholipid bilayer that makes up the cell membrane.

How to supplement folic acid?

Folic acid is very important to fetal development. A lack of folic acid can cause fetal neural tube defects, as well as miscarriage, premature birth, low birth weight and other issues. Green vegetables, animal liver, egg yolk, beans, etc. contain folic acid.

Pork asparagus roll

folic acid: 89 micrograms

Ingredients: pork, asparagus, cooking wine, ginger, garlic, salt, curry powder, black pepper.

Method:

1.Put cooking wine, ginger, minced garlic into container with pork pieces and marinated 10-15 minutes.

2. Wash asparagus, remove the root and peeled, cut into medium segment.

3. Wrap asparagus segment with pork made in step 1

4. Sprinkled with curry powder, salt and black pepper and put rolls into the oven to bake about 7 minutes.

Nutrition Notes

Asparagus is in the first place of containing folic acid , the best way to cook asparagus is put them into boiling water and put some olive oil and ready to serve. The purpose of backing is to remove the fat in the pork.

Beef and cabbage

folic acid: 41 micrograms

Ingredients: cabbage, beef, sesame oil, salt, pepper, ginger.

Method:

1.Put cabbage into microwave oven and heat 2 minutes and cut them into squares.

2. Prepare a pot with boiling water, add beef, ginger, when the beef are ready and slice them

3. Put the cabbage, sliced beef on a plate, mix sesame oil, salt, pepper powder

Nutrition Notes:

Cabbage is rich in folic acid, Microwave heating or boiling are correct cooking methods. High-temperature frying, boiling and frying are easy to destroy nutrients in vegetables. Beef is not only a high-quality source of animal protein, but also rich in iron, magnesium, potassium and other minerals.