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The Importance of Eating the Right Foods during Pregnancy
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Once you start to find out that you are pregnant it may be a tremendous joy. You start to caress your stomach in hopes that your little one can feel you. The following nine months are going to be an exciting time for you and your baby.
It is necessary for you to eat as well as you can throughout most of your pregnancy, in order to support this wonderful miracle along. Within the first few months, sometimes it might be a little difficult to eat balanced meals when you are dealing with morning sickness and food aversions. If you are one of the lucky ones whose stomach doesn’t bother you as much during your first trimester, then you can take full advantage of eating healthy right from the start.
By eating appropriate balanced nutritious meals it is laying down a good foundation for your baby. A diet of junk food is not going to help your baby with bone and organ development. Potato chips will not help with brain development. Your baby and your body need vitamins and minerals to achieve all of this.
During pregnancy, eating right is going to help your baby eat well after he or she is born. As your pregnancy progresses, some of what you eat will cross the placenta and the taste will be in your baby’s amniotic fluid. Babies swallow this fluid and their taste buds are developed. Even in the womb they are able to taste certain flavors. Doctors believe that babies who are exposed to a wide variety of fruit and vegetables while in utero have less of a chance of being a picky eater later in life. They believe that these are the babies who will eat their fruit and vegetables without a problem.
This isn’t to say that you have to stay away from sweets all the time. There is an 80/20 rule and you can indulge every now and then. Eighty percent of the time eating the correct nutritious foods while twenty percent you can indulge in your craving of sweets you may have. You do have to keep it in moderation. Being pregnant should not be looked at as an excuse to eat whatever you want for nine months. Both you and your baby could pay an unhealthy price.
10/20/09 Top Ten Effective Ways To Prevent the Flu
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There are a lot of fear and misleading information about the flu and very little on how to protect yourself from it naturally. So if you follow and implement this list, you have a better chance of not getting the flu.
- 1) Avoid white sugar
- 2) Exercise regularly
- 3) Get adequate sleep
4) Eat a healthy diet, especially omitting trans-fats (like margarine)
5) Drink plenty of purified water daily
6) Increase your intake of Omega-3 fatty acids (in fish oil)
7) Sneeze and cough into the “crook” of your elbow
8) Wash your hands
9) Reduce your stress
10) Get your nerve system checked regularly to ensure that your immune system can function at maximum capacity to protect you
10/04/09 The Nutritious Power of Yerba Mate
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Yerba Mate’ is an evergreen member of the holly family. It grows wild in Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Brazil, but is most abundant in Paraguay where it is also cultivated.
Yerba Mate tea contains practically all of the vitamins to sustain life-powerful antioxidant, tone the nervous system, retard aging, combat fatigue, stimulate the mind, control appetite, reduce stress, caffeine free. Vitamins A, C, E, B1, B2, B complex, riboflavin, vitamin C complex, magnesium, calcium, iron, sodium, potassium, manganese, silicon. Specially large amounts of pantothenic acid, a significant and vital nutrient. THE ONLY PLANT IN ANY AREA OF THE WORLD WITH SUCH A NUTRITIONAL VALUE.
Therefore if you feel that you are either nutritionally deficient and/or have a need for detoxification, then a 50mg to 100mg daily infusion of hot Yerba Mate can be used as natural supplement and diuretic.
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