Tips for Choosing Meat For Pregnant Women

It is important for pregnant women to pay more attention to food intake. Given that, at that time there was a fetus in her womb that desperately need essential nutrients for growth and development of the brain and body. And one type of food that is needed is, various kinds of meat, including red meat. Meat become a source of animal protein that will utilize the health of mother and baby.

Animal protein is needed for the synthesis of albumin pregnant women. Albumin functions draws fluid in the mother's blood vessels and remove it from the network. Too much fluid in blood vessels can lead to edema (swelling) in the legs, hands and face of the mother. Protein is also necessary for the formation of the placenta, amniotic fluid, uterine tissue growth and blood volume expansion. Well, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), additional protein for the mother hamila is 0.75 grams. In other words, the amount of protein needed each day by pregnant women is approximately 60-76 grams per day, or about 925 grams of total protein needed during pregnancy.

However, in selecting meat that remains for pregnant women, there are some things that must be considered. First, mothers should choose chicken or beef lean, skinless chicken meat. Indeed, sometimes difficult for mothers looking for a low-fat meat, but we can ask the meat cutter to separate the fat in the meat. Then, when cooking meat, make sure that it was cooked perfectly to avoid the infection of a variety of bacteria or parasites such as toxoplasmosis, listeria or salmonella that can cause dangerous health problems.

"In addition to protein, of meat such as beef will increase iron in the mother's body. Iron is needed to form red blood cells and is essential for growth and energy metabolism, in addition to minimizing the occurrence of anemia peluanh. Iron needs to be doubled than before pregnancy. The iron requirement mothers rose from 18 milligrams (mg) to 30-60 mg / day. Iron is essential for making hemoglobin and protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen to other body tissues, helps prevent anemia and bleeding during childbirth, as well as prevent fetal defects"

(Sumber: Gizitinggi.org)

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