Not exact matches
To make the birthing experience as painless as possible, your wife should avoid gluten and
sugar in the last two weeks of
pregnancy,
eat only 2000 calories a day and exercise for 30 minutes daily
during pregnancy.
One of the main concerns of
eating too much processed
sugars is that it increases the chances that you'll develop gestational diabetes, a diabetes that occurs
during pregnancy and usually goes away after birth.
Unfortunately, despite craving grains and
sugars, my pregnant body had come to rely on the Paleo diet and
during my son's
pregnancy, it was all I could
eat if I didn't want my hyperemesis gravidarum to flare up and send me to the hospital dehydrated, sick, and weak.
A study of 9,000 women found that those who
ate high levels of
sugar during pregnancy were around twice as likely to have a child that went on to develop allergic asthma than woman who
ate relatively little
sugar.
Eating zinc rich foods is important for proper immune system functioning, the sense of smell, protein synthesis, healthy skin, controlling blood
sugar levels, DNA creation, triggering enzymes and support of growth
during pregnancy, childhood and adulthood.
New research shows that women who
ate a vegetable - rich diet
during the year before
pregnancy had a significantly lower risk of having a baby with certain birth defects as women who
ate an unhealthy high -
sugar diet.
I
ate very low carb for the 1st 6 weeks of my
pregnancies because I am a diabetic and wanted to protect my children from blood
sugar spikes
during the period that their organs were forming.
During my
pregnancy I told my midwife I was waking up hungry in the middle of the night and she actually told me to
eat something sweet right before bed «to keep my blood
sugar up over night».
I do feel that I generally
ate pretty healthy
during my last
pregnancy, but since becoming a fitness coach, I have paid even more attention to what I am putting in my body on a daily basis... especially processed foods and
sugars.