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Why is it important for pregnant women to follow a healthy diet?
Why is it important for pregnant women to follow a healthy diet?
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#2 written by Pippin 2 years ago
For the same reason it’s important for ANYONE to follow a healthy diet. We need to eat reasonably well in order to get all the nutrients our body requires. When a woman is pregnant she also has to provide nutrients for the growing fetus. And her body will supply the fetus first, so if the woman is malnourished, SHE is the one who will suffer.
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#3 written by Saved by Grace! 2 years ago
actually its because your baby is taking everything from you to nourish itself so it can grow properly…..if you don’t replace those nutrients, your body won’t function right and you become more prone to diesease and sickness.
This is actually good reason to eat healthy all the time….so your body can function right. -
#9 written by 19 weeks pregnant with a boy 2 years ago
So that the child growing inside them gets all the good nutrients from the food you eat.
A growing baby needs certain amounts of each vitamin and mineral out there, if you don’t eat enough food containing those vitamins then the baby takes it from your system, which can leave you feeling tired and sick.
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#10 written by mommy2one1ontheway 2 years ago
First of all for the health of your baby…And it doesn’t hurt to continue a healthy diet when you are not pregnant cause it will help you feel better. But it keeps off unnecessary pounds that would come if you ate junk all the time and it just keeps you feeling good cause the baby takes a lot out of you…
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#13 written by Paresh M 2 years ago
so that they have an easy pregnancy and an healthy baby; there are tips on a healthy diet here http://www.easyninemonths.com/pregnancy_diet.htm
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Normally diets are just to maintain your already-developed body. When you are pregnant, you are growing an entire body – brain, bones, heart, blood, liver and kidneys, muscles, etc – all from scratch, from one cell.
Each of these body parts need certain vitamins and minerals, as well as basic nutrients. Bones are calcium; the redi in blood is iron; also, the majority of spinal development problems (i.s. spina bifida) are preventable with appropriate doses of folic acid. Proteins, fats and carbs are the basic building blocks the body uses to grow.
All these nutrient have their uses. Shortages could lead to stunted or underdeveloped children. Fortunately in the modern world, even a bad diet has a lot of good nutrients. (Pizza has cheese and carbs and tomatoes. Hamburgers are actually real food.)
An adult can tolerate or recover from a bad diet with vitamin and nutrient shortages – like the one month banana and grapefruit diet – much better than a rapidly developing fetus can. If the nutrients aren’t there the first few weeks the brain starts developing, for example, it may be difficult to make up for lost time and the child may be permanently handicapped.
As long as the baby gets a decent level and selection of nutrients, good diet – as in “eat your lean meat and organic vegetables, not ice cream and pickles” – doesn’t really matter.
One of the other things is that in the last few decades, due to the negative body image most women see from advertising, what’s considered a good diet is too little. The starvation diet to keep yourself into a size 4 or 8 is nowhere near what is needed to grow an extra 10 or more pounds of fetus and placenta in months. Fortunately, women get wierd cravings to take care of that problem.