We seem to know everything on this subject already. However, sometimes information can be so discrepant, especially if we get it from our friends and acquaintances.
Remember:
- Wash fruits and vegetables before you eat them;
- Dishes, containing eggs, poultry, meat and fish should undergo a careful thermal processing and cooked completely;
- Wash hands before and after you deal with raw meat and poultry;
- Check food shelf life.
Now let’s talk about foods.
Fish
Firstly, you should avoid such sorts of fish that contain methylmercury in excess quantity. For example, shark, swordfish, tilefish, great kingfish. Tunny-fish also causes discrepant opinions. Some consider it is in the list of potentially dangerous sorts of fish due to its methylmercury content, others refute this fact.
Secondly, avoid sushi. On no account eat sushi and other raw fish. This hides several dangers: diseases called listeriosis and hepatitis A.
Thirdly, avoid smoked sea foods, also because of listeriosis.
Safe sea food – small ocean fish.
Cheese. It is recommended avoiding soft-ripened cheeses, for example, Feta, Brie, Camembert, Roquefort and other blue cheeses.
Of dairy produce you can bravely eat pasteurized milk, pasteurized cotton cheese, yogurts, cotton cheese creams. You should better avoid raw milk and cotton cheese.
Sugar. If your organism requires eating something sweet, this means you do not receive necessary quantity of nutritive elements, not that you feel lack of sweets. In such case you should better eat a sweet fruit, avoiding candies, fizzy water etc.
Do not worry, quantity of sweets you eat does not lead to gestosis in pregnant women. Age, weight and heredity affect it. However, this does not mean you should eat everything indiscriminately. You should better choose good dark chocolate, fruits, dried fruits and oaten pastry with raisin, juice.
Nitrites and nitrates. You should better refuse from foods containing a preservative - sodium nitrite and other elements with such prefixes. If organism assimilates them, nitrites and nitrates can turn into carcinogenic nitrosamines. However, nitrosamine formation is neutralized by vitamin C, so, if a food also contains ascorbates, then nitrosamine formation is neutralized. But still it is better for you to avoid such dainties.
Caffeine. There is no information stating that caffeine affects fetus negatively. However, it is unreasonable depriving yourself of necessary sleep, supporting activity due to caffeine. Reduce caffeine consumption to 2 cups of coffee or tea a day (coffee, black and green tea contain almost equal caffeine content), and it will be even better for you to refuse from caffeinated drinks.
