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How to maintain adequate nutritional status?

Good nutritional status is achieved and maintained on a diet adequate in quality and quantity of food. Although pregnant women meet their own needs and those of the fetus, it is necessary to eat for two, or even good.

Modular recommended some dietary components:

Energy: It is recommended that in the first quarter increase in 150kcal daily total intake for the second and third trimester is recommended an increase of approximately 350 kcal.

Protein: It is recommended an increase of 4.7 mg/day which equates to increase in a serving of meat or equivalent daily intake.

Carbohydrates do not recommend the increase in quantity, on the one recommended for an adult, but if it is advisable to monitor the quality and distribution throughout the day to avoid a hyper-and hypoglycemia are common among pregnant women. Recommended slowly absorbed sugars (fruits, cereals, legumes) and also rapidly absorbed sugar, honey, etc.. especially at breakfast and dinner. You should take both types in the five meals.

Lipid intake recommended by the same amount that you should consume a nonpregnant adult.

Vitamins: are nutrients of great importance in the gestation period is necessary to ensure the recommended intake for adults. In this group, a special interest, and is spreading its supplementation, folic acid. We recommend consuming 400 ug/day, which is twice the recommended amount in a non-pregnant women.
Minerals: calcium and phosphorus are recommended to take about 1200 mg / day. Iron varies depending on its recommendation trimester: During the first quarter is recommended 0.9 mg / day, in the second 4.1 and third 6.2.

What about supplements?

The vitamin and mineral supplements are perfectly justified in deficiency states, ie, when pregnant women show a clinical deficit that has been detected analytically. In these cases the doctor who follows the course of pregnancy will determine both the type of supplement as the dose to take. In cases where no gap occurs supplementation is not only unnecessary but can be harmful.

What do you care, especially pregnant women in their food?

You must make a balanced diet. Do not take out or limiting restrictive diets that do not ensure basic nutritional requirements.

Avoid situations of fasting, both temporal and fasting diets free of carbohydrate, and situations that can cause ketosis (increased blood ketone bodies) that are harmful to the fetus.

Care should be taken while taking medications and supplements. In both cases only should take the dose recommended by your doctor and under his control.

Care should be taken with the ingestion of nonnutritive substances because they can interfere with absorption of nutrients.

Care should be taken with alcohol intake, snuff and other drugs. It is known from the harmful effects of any of them on the fetus, premature births, low birth weight, drug and even neonatal malformations.

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