Healthy nutrition during pregnancy is of great importance to both maternal and fetal health. Therefore, the mother must have a healthy and balanced diet to provide her child with the nutrients necessary for his growth properly on the one hand, and to maintain the health on the other.

The German pediatrician Frank Jochum explained that what the mother ate reaches the fetus through the placenta, pointing out that during pregnancy and up to the second year of the child's processes occur metabolism that determines the future nutritional behavior of the child, this period called "sensitive thousand days."

Fresh Foods
For her part, German nutrition expert Margaret Murlo recommended pregnant women to eat fresh foods instead of takeaway, with vegetables three times and fruits twice a day.

Eating whole grain products ensures that the body is able to obtain large quantities of minerals, vitamins and dietary fiber, while taking the oils and replacing them with vegetable fats, while minimizing sweets and crisps.

The five caveats
It is important for the growth of the child's brain to supply the body with multiple fatty acids, unsaturated and long-chain, and are found in fish such as salmon, herring and mackerel. Folic acid is often needed during pregnancy, and this requirement is usually met by tablets.

The German nutritionist warned against eating certain foods during pregnancy:

1 - raw milk cheese (unpasteurized).

2 - raw animal foods.

3 - exposed foods.

Morlo pointed to the need to increase daily calories by 250 calories starting from the second trimester of pregnancy, and the amount of five hundred calories in the third third and the last.

Normal weight
German pediatrician Regina Insenauer stressed that women should have normal weight and healthy metabolism at the beginning of pregnancy, warning that weight gain at the beginning of pregnancy also raises the risk of weight gain later, as well as diseases such as type 2 diabetes or heart disease And blood vessels.

However, the doctor cautioned the overweight woman from trying to lose weight during pregnancy, stressing that this was not a good time to avoid harming the mother and the child.

Instead, a healthy and balanced diet should be followed, with the integration of a lot of exercise and motor activities into daily life.