Foods to avoid when pregnant
The following are foods that should be avoided during pregnancy:
- Raw meat. Avoid eating sushi and beef are not cooked or uncooked poultry products that are not cooked perfectly. This product may have been contaminated with coliform bacteria, toxoplasmosis and salmonella.
- Soft cheeses such as Blue cheese, feta, Brie, soft white cheese Camambert and Latin-American (and Queso Queso blanco fresco) for possibly contain harmful bacteria.
- Raw eggs, mayonnaise, homemade ice cream or custard, eggnog without the process of pasteurization or Holland sauce because raw eggs potentially contain Salmonella bacteria.
- Fish containing accumulated levels of mercury in their fat tissue such as shark, marlin, king mackerel and tilefish. If you consume too much mercury so your baby will suffered brain damage such as slow in terms of learning the street or talking.
Fish that contain high amounts of industrial pollutants (known as polychlorinated biphenyls or PCBs) in fatty tissue such as bluefish and striped bass and freshwater fish such as salmon, trout from the polluted river or lake. Consuming large amounts of PCBs by pregnant women is associated with decreased attention, memory and IQ in babies.
- Limit the heart consume. Because the liver of animals contain high amounts of vitamin A. Although vitamin A good for the body but pregnant women who consume too much vitamin A is feared will increase the incidence of birth defects. Although you eat foods or supplements containing vitamin A would be better not to eat liver as a habit. U.S. Food and Drug Agency, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommends that pregnant women maintain the intake of vitamin A in the range of 8000 IU and vitamin A were consumed in the form of beta-carotene, which is considered harmless.
A healthy diet may help you to avoid morning sickness, and still maintain your beauty and stamina.