| How to Create the Perfect Diet During Pregnancy | | | | growing waistline as well as affect your growing infant. |
| Want to hear some excellent news about how to | | | | How Sugar Can Wreck Your Diet During Pregnancy |
| create the perfect diet during pregnancy? Rule number | | | | When eating during pregnancy, sugar is more rapidly |
| one: toss the diet books! | | | | absorbed into your body. If you are taking in more |
| Whether you have struggled with your weight, or have | | | | sugar than you should be, your pancreas is going to be |
| always been conscientious of your body and it's health, | | | | unduly taxed during the process of regulation. This puts |
| pregnancy is the time to eat, not diet. However, the | | | | excessive strain on your body's ability to regulate |
| term diet has been skewed in our culture to mean the | | | | blood sugar levels. |
| absence of something. | | | | Left unchecked, eating too much sugar can develop |
| But when you are expecting a new bundle of joy, your | | | | into gestational diabetes. Additionally, too much sugar |
| "diet" during pregnancy should be an inclusive | | | | may translate into unhealthy weight gain. Sugar is high |
| approach. The only thing that should be missing from | | | | in empty calories, and your baby needs the type of |
| your daily calorie intake is unnecessary fat, sugar, and | | | | nutrients that will do the heavy lifting and help him |
| processed junk. | | | | develop a strong and healthy body. |
| The Core of Your Diet During Pregnancy | | | | Another Reason Sugar is a Pregnancy Diet No-No |
| Your pregnancy diet plan should be built around | | | | Another downside? If your diet during pregnancy is |
| complex carbohydrates like sprouted wheat or rice | | | | heavy on sugar your baby may grow to be too large. |
| bread which are fiber-rich, organic lean meats, | | | | Large babies are not only harder to deliver for |
| calcium-rich foods, and as many fruits and leafy | | | | mommy, but if your maternal blood sugar is too high |
| veggies that you can handle. | | | | Macrosomia can occur, which increases the need for |
| Perhaps one of the most important things to get in the | | | | a C-section. Ingesting too much sugar also can raise |
| habit of doing is reading the nutrition labels and | | | | your child's chances of suffering from childhood |
| ingredients on foods you purchase. Be aware that | | | | obesity. |
| foods are not packaged these days to be upfront with | | | | If you must sweeten your food during pregnancy, I |
| their ingredients. | | | | suggest using the following alternatives: Stevia, xylitol, |
| One rule of thumb is that the lesser number of | | | | agave syrup, and raw honey. |
| ingredients the better, unless of course those | | | | Now that you have begun planning your pregnancy |
| ingredients are sugar and cream. Sugar is the number | | | | diet you may need a little professional help. |
| one secret ingredient that can wreck havoc on your | | | | |