How To Keep Mom And Baby Healthy During Pregnancy
Your Summer Music Festival Guide
Coachella Moments, Bassnectar Vava Voom Tour
Celeb Style Showdown
The latest in celebrity style by Glam.com
The Great Outdoors
Have An Outdoor Adventure
Beautiful Change Challenge
Getting Back Into A Fitness Groove, A Healthy Mind Means A Healthy Body
There is no time in the life of a woman when food is of so much importance as during the time of her pregnancy and when nursing her babe.
Food determines the strength and vitality, the mental tranquility, the physical comfort or discomfort that comes from good or poor digestion. It controls more than any other one thing, the thoughts and imagination ; that is, under a perfect system of feeding, the prospective mother forgets self and her mind turns naturally to the higher, the better and the nobler things.
The pregnant mother should bestow upon her diet the most infinite study if she would give to her offspring those splendid faculties which every mother desires.
The over-consumption of starch foods should be carefully avoided because the calcareous element in starch is apt to produce a large structural or bone formation in the child, making it exceedingly difficult of delivery and sometimes out of the proper physical proportion.
The food of the pregnant mother should consist of vegetables, all green and succulent plants that are edible, thoroughly ripened fruit, nuts, milk (fresh or clabbered), eggs and a limited quantity of coarse bread, made from the entire grain. She should avoid pastries and especially an excess of articles containing cane sugar, confections and soda-fount drinks.
The prospective mother should take a reasonable amount of exercise daily, a great deal of deep breathing in the open air and should masticate every particle of food she swallows to infinite fineness. She should remember that every movement of the body from the winking of an eye to the most strenuous labor consumes energy. From these spent forces there are poisons left in the body that must be eliminated in order to be healthy.
The health of the nursing infant is controlled almost wholly by the mother's food. It is not extravagant to say that the frightful loss of infant life could be reduced seventy-five per cent, if mothers understood and would observe the few simple laws that govern the conversion of their food into mother's milk suitable for the healthy growth of infant life.
The food of the nursing mother should be confined to rather narrow limitations. She can secure certain food articles which contain all the elements of nourishment she needs and which will give to her child all it needs and in no wise disturb its digestion or endanger its life, from a few of Nature's most staple and most delicious things.
The nursing mother should omit from her diet all stimulating, narcotic and sedative beverages such as tea, coffee, beer, wine and liquors. She should avoid extremes, both acids and sweets. She should omit all forms of flesh food except young tender fish or the white or bloodless portion of chicken, and these need only be taken to relieve dietetic monotony or when such protein foods as eggs, milk and legumes cannot be obtained.
Considering the requirements of the baby, the mother's food should consist of fresh vegetables, green salads (omitting vinegar), nuts, semi-acid and sweet fruits, milk, eggs and a limited quantity of starch foods and natural sweets, such as bread made from the entire grain, either wheat or rye, dates, figs or raisins.
One of the most important things for the mother to preserve is mental and physical tranquility. The mother should not nurse her child while laboring under any mental disturbance or excitement such as anger or fright, or any physical conditions such as fatigue or while over-heated.
If the diet of the pregnant or nursing mother were selected from the articles herein named, properly combined and proportioned, thoroughly masticated, and if she could be induced to devote fifteen minutes night and morning to vigorous exercise in the open air and to filling the lungs to their utmost capacity with good, fresh ozone a few hundred times a day, it would be almost impossible for either the mother or child to become afflicted with abnormal conditions we are pleased to call disease.
A few common sense rules is all that is needed to ensure the heath and well-being of mothers and babies. What is stopping us?
Nutritionist Removes The Annoyance Of Being Vegetarian And Finally Reveals How To Create Super Healthy Vegetarian Meatless Meals…
Click here for FREE online Ebook