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Eating nuts during pregnancy benefits

In the classification of food, nuts are classified as a fatty food. High calorie and high fat is characteristic of them, but although nuts contain oil, but mostly unsaturated fatty acids. For the fetus, the nutritional content of body development you need to first, of course, is a protein. But for the development of the brain, first nutritional ingredient is in need of lipids (unsaturated fatty acids). According to studies, brain cells by the protein composition of the cent of unsaturated fatty acids and 60%. In addition, nuts also contain 15~20% of good-quality protein and a dozen of important amino acids, these amino acids are the main components that make up the brain cells, also contains beneficial to brain neurons of vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B5, vitamin e and calcium, phosphorus, iron, zinc, etc. So whether it is at the mother, is also on the fetus, nuts are brain, puzzle to share.


Walnut


First effects of the brain, brain is walnuts, containing phospholipids with growth of cells and the role of it, can enhance the body immunity, and promoting the hematopoietic and wound healing. In addition, the walnut has antitussive, antiasthmatic effects. Especially experience winter\'s mother, as the preferred snack walnut.


Recommended usage


Walnut can be eaten raw or added to brine, cooked food, can also and Pearl barley, chestnuts, cooked porridge to eat.


Peanut


Protein content of up to about 30%, nutritional value can be used with comparable such as eggs, milk, meat, and apt to be absorbed. Effect of peanut skin there is blood.


Recommended cooking methods


Broth with the soybean, also can be placed in congee or rice and Lotus seeds. It is best not to use oil fried food.


Almond


Almonds are lowering gas, cough, asthma, moistening effect. For prevention of constipation during pregnancy is beneficial. But Chinese medicine think almonds with small poison, unfit to eat.


Recommended usage


In General, we are able to buy most of the bags of almonds, if you don\'t like, or you can try the chocolate with almonds.


Melon seeds


We often see is a child of sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds and watermelon. Eat pumpkin seeds can cure Kidney stone disease, watermelon seed of Chinese medicine think sweet flavor from the cold, with effects such as Lee lung, traditional, hemostasis, Jianwei; sunflower seed unsaturated fatty acids contained can play a role in reducing cholesterol.


Recommended usage


Eat mostly cooked or fried with cooked. But in the process of cooking can be tailored to their tastes and adding spices or flavoring agents, you can have five melon seeds, butter, salt and pepper, and so on.


Hawaiian fruit


The nuts is a native to Australia, alias fruit in Queensland or Australian walnut. Hawaiian fruit oil content of up to 60~80%, also rich in calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B1, B2, and amino acids.


Recommended usage


Hawaiian fruit can be fresh, but more is processed into savory or secondary as a sweet dessert, or as a candy, chocolate and ice cream ingredients.


Pine nut


Rich in vitamins a and e, as well as human essential fatty acids, oleic acid, linoleic acid and linolenic acid, also containing other plants don\'t have Mr Pinault convergence of acid. It not only has the effect of yishou nourish, removing diseases health. Also has cancer, anticancer effects.


Recommended usage


Health, food, made delicious pine nuts or corn.


Hazelnut


Contains unsaturated fatty acids, and is rich in phosphorus, iron, potassium and other minerals, and vitamins a, B1, B2, Nicotinic Acid, often eating can improve eyesight, brain.


Recommended usage


If you don\'t want to eat hazels, can crush with eat ice cream or put them in oatmeal.


Adhere to 50 grams a day, eat more useless


The nut, at the mother body care and fetal growth although there are many benefits. But to have a degree, still is not. Because oil nuts, female digestive function in pregnancy will diminish, if excessive consumption of nuts, will \"lose stomach\", caused by indigestion, or even \"fat and purging\", but counterproductive, MI-LAN-gold added.


Hate the taste of nuts to do?


If you can enjoy all kinds of delicious of nuts during pregnancy, so lucky. Some quasi mother early pregnant nausea symptoms more heavy, or does not like eat nuts class food, even see, and smell to will cannot stand, that also doesn\'t matter, you can slightly on nuts were for about processing, to for own of taste, does not like health food can fried cooked Hou edible, also can to nuts inquiry into late, joined salt or and baking had of prickly powder mixed clips steamed bun, and adjusting noodles, also can mix in cold dish in or made various of dishes. If you feel that outsourcing with a layer of skin is too bitter nuts, use boiling water bubbles, it is easy to peel when it went. Can also be baked on an open fire, hand-rubbing the skin can fall. Eventually tell mother to another interesting and useful way, is pregnant and other friends and neighbors organized \"cooking party\" to ensure your appetite.


Other benefits


Eating nuts can help prevent diabetes


According to the latest research data show that the habit of eating nuts can reduce the chance of suffering from diabetes.


In the United States on the Diabetes Association 62nd annual meeting, United States researchers published their findings: on 83,818 women in 34~59sui diet during the investigation and follow-up of 16, edible nuts per week increase in the number of found, downward trends in the chances of diabetes. This

Results will not be subject to age, physical fitness, diet, smoking, regular exercise, is there a family history of diabetes and how much influence of drinking.

Eat nuts reduce heart disease probability


United States researchers in a women\'s Hospital found that eating nuts reduces the probability of people to have a heart attack.


Since 1985, the hospital\'s doctors on 2,100 men nut consumption and cardiac status tracking study, found that 28 grams of nuts to eat, eat at least twice a week, have a heart attack death of probability less than don\'t eat nuts 47%, will reduce the probability of 30% in coronary heart disease.


Pointed out that rich in unsaturated fats in nuts, magnesium and vitamin e, these are very important to prevent heart disease.

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