Women are traditionally very scrupulous about their figure: calculate the calories eaten at dinner, go to the gym and from time to time using a measuring tape or narrow jeans determine whether their waist size has changed. However, there is one condition where women for quite understandable reasons stop following such things - this is the state of pregnancy.

Indeed, when you are pregnant, and especially if the period is already serious, no one will notice a couple of extra centimeters, while a woman in a position should eat well, as she eats something for two.

However, from the point of view of physiology, pregnancy is precisely the condition when a woman is obliged to watch tirelessly that when and in what amounts she eats. Obesity, especially excessive, during pregnancy is fraught with the most serious problems, both for the health of the mother and for the health of the child. In particular, overweight is one of those factors, due to which now all the thickets of doctors when taking delivery have to resort to cesarean section. In fact, during pregnancy, you only need to slightly increase the amount of calories consumed - sure Dr. Bridget Benelam of the UK's Healthy Food Foundation.

A special study conducted by a group of British scientists on this topic gave the following conclusions: there should be no increase in the amount of calories consumed by a woman during the first 28 weeks of pregnancy, and there should be no increase in the amount of calories consumed by a woman by more than 200 calories. A day in the next 12 weeks of pregnancy. Is it worth adding that 200 cal. Is the equivalent of two small slices of bread. However, who is to blame for the fact that women traditionally begin especially "hard" to eat during pregnancy?.

Researchers answer - doctors. In a survey of 6,000 women conducted by the Royal College of Obstetrics and Maternity, 61% of mothers said that their midwives, for various reasons, simply did not have enough time to discuss with them nutrition problems in the course of pregnancy.

Future mothers also do not have the opportunity to obtain information from authoritative books and manuals, because they are simply not available, and information found on the Internet can sometimes simply not be trusted.

What is the way out of this situation? Dr. Bridget Bonelam is confident that future mothers need to get advice from a professional physician at any cost, and it is better for several to know in detail how they should eat in the next 9 months, taking into account their age, health status, current weight and All other factors.

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