Regular nutrition is pretty different from pregnancy nutrition. A woman who is used to eating healthy natural food, will usually understand pregnancy nutrition better and she will make the right food choices. Yet, in other cases the nine months of pregnancy could be a surrender to junk food or a fight against it. Natural food is the essence of pregnancy nutrition, and 'natural' means little processed, free of colorants, preservers and additives.
A pregnant woman has special nutritional needs. She uses a lot more calories per day, a larger amount of nutrients, and these can only be taken from a balanced diet that includes plenty of dairy products, meat, fruit and vegetables, pasta and breads and healthy fat from hazelnuts, nuts, almonds, seeds and cold-pressed oils. You can learn more about pregnancy nutrition from the many guides available in books or online. We will just enumerate some dos and don'ts of pregnancy nutrition.
You should avoid any type of raw eggs in foods like mayonnaise or eggnog because they can cause digestive infections when carrying a bacterium called salmonella.
Some ocean fish foods have a high content of mercury that is toxic both for mother and baby.
Raw fish like in sushi dishes is one other example of foods that can make you ill.
Alcohol, caffeine, soft drinks, junk food and sweets are very far from what we'd call healthy pregnancy nutrition.
Keep a middle course for your diet and there won't be any problems. You can have a bar of chocolate or an ice-cream when you crave for it, but these are not substitutes for healthy meals. Give your baby quality nutrients not pseudo-foods that only contain calories. Thus, even if the caloric needs are higher, you have to consume calories in the form of nutritious foods.
Junk food is full of calories, yet it will do you no good at all, on the contrary. Depending on the pregnancy stage, the specificity of pregnancy nutrition will differ a lot. The food choices are limited to what the body tolerates during the first months of pregnancy when you experience morning sickness.
Pregnancy nutrition improves with the second trimester, when you will feel a lot of energy and you will eat heartily. And with good food and the mother's state of well-being, the baby should grow very well.
Author Resource:
Regine Hehn is a fat loss enthusiast. She wrote a great The Diet Solution Review and owns and maintains http://thefatlossreview.com/the-diet-solution-review.html .
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