Healthful Food Choices During Pregnancy

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By daryl2007


Here are food healthful during your pregnancy, it is advice from a great doctor.

source: Marjorie Greenfield, M.D

These recommendations are here to guide your choices. As you make small changes, hopefully you will develop good habits that will serve you and your children well throughout your lifetimes.

  • Eat mostly vegetables and fruits--strong colors tend to be the most vitamin-rich.
  • Get sources of protein from chicken, lean meats, fish (choose fish that tend to be low in mercury), tofu, or low-fat dairy sources. If you are vegan vegetarian, you will need to learn about nutrition to meet your protein and vitamin needs.
  • Take in most of your carbs as whole grains: brown rice and whole wheat. Downplay white foods.
  • Don't drink your calories--our bodies don't know when we take in liquid nutrition and oftentimes we don't count it in our daily intake. Sodas and juices contain a lot of calories.
  • Eat food that looks like food, not processed into something else.
  • Eat what your appetite tells you to--eat when you are hungry, take your time, and stop just before you are full.
  • When you do eat foods that are not "ideal," take a small portion, and enjoy every minute of it.
  • If you eat from stress, habit, boredom, or to socialize, find alternative ways to meet those needs. Keep your hands busy, go for a walk, listen to music, phone a friend.
  • Pay attention to your food while you are eating it. Don't watch television or read, or you may eat more than you meant to and still not really be satisfied.

Habits are hard to change, but when we get used to making good food choices and eating to allay hunger (as opposed to the myriad other reasons we eat), we can all really enjoy the tastes and textures of our sustenance, and be healthy too!

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Fat Into The Fire  says:
2 years ago

Daryl2007,

These are great tips that are not only good for pregnant women - but all people.

Obesity and overweight is such an epidemic problem. Your post includes two of my favorite tips.

Avoid anything 'white'. This usually boils down to avoiding white flour and sugar. White flour is nothing but GLUE once it hits the stomach and is digested. No fiber, and then it breaks down fast to sugar.

A physical education teacher I know likes to say 'we are taking sugar and eating it with more sugar'. In essence, white flour products loaded with sugar are just that.

Also 'drinking calories'. Way too many people drink down calories that don't even register.

In particular, for all the soda drinkers out there. But undiluted fruit juices start to really add up in calories fast too.

Cutting down 'liquid calories' alone could result in dramatic fat loss for many.

Behavior change is key, so that making healthy choices comes natural.

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