Life is shrouded in lactating mothers and continuous speculation that, and how they need to do to get their kids to be healthy. They do not always meet the real needs of speculation and there are even very harmful
WHO, UNICEF, the AARP, the Ministry of Health of different countries considered restrictive diets such as hunger (shortage) for specific food substances and insist on the need for safe, high-grade, balanced nutrition for pregnant and lactating mothers.
Theory on the side of women
According to the research, maternal nutrition practically displayed on the health and well-being of children. Feed the starving may even mom - it is, of course, on extreme situations. However, the real need to limit the diet of breastfeeding mothers do not exist!
A review of the maternal diet during lactation Studies said that the content of certain vitamins, minerals, valuable fatty acids depends on the presence and level of the mother's diet. Therefore, nursing mothers diet should be complete and balanced. In most cases, the usual average varied diet family (without restriction diets) just contains the necessary amount of all necessary nutrients.
Meals nursing mothers: Do you need to take additional vitamins / istockphoto.com
Extra vitamins are not necessary
Vitamins and mineral supplements are no substitute for good nutrition. By multivitamin supplements should be treated with care and use them only on doctor's advice.
A well-balanced diet usually contains enough essential vitamins and minerals, and vitamin supplements misuse may cause a number of undesirable consequences.
WHO opposed to indiscriminate destination iron preparations: they degrade and break zinc digestibility exchange copper. Hence, the need for iron be satisfied with food. By the way, nursing mothers, this need may be even lower, because at the time of the lactation period, there is no loss of iron with menstruation.
Meals nursing mothers: Do you need to take additional vitamins / istockphoto.com
In the area of special attention
Varied and nutritious diet of a mother - is right and good. But at the same time, there are products whose use at the time of feeding is better to limit. These products include certain types of marine fish, which contains high amounts of mercury (shark, swordfish, tilapia, king mackerel, canned tuna).
Some children may respond to a number of products in the mother's diet, such as cow's milk, caffeine, soy, chocolate and nuts. To minimize the risk of these reactions, the WHO recommends to limit the amount of caffeine intake to 300 mg per day (including coffee, tea, cola, chocolate), that is, to drink no more than 3-4 cups of espresso or tea per day. However, recent studies in the field of allergy evidence that good nutrition without restriction during pregnancy and breast-feeding reduces the chance of allergies in children.
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