Nutrition and Food sciences

Track 17: Pregnancy and Pre pregnancy nutrition

Many women don't eat a well-balanced diet earlier pregnancy and may not have the appropriate nutritional status for the loads of pregnancy. Generally, a pregnant woman desires to add about 300 extra calories daily after the first trimester to meet the needs of her body and her developing baby.  Pregnancy is the foremost phase in a women’s life. When they want nutrition for the baby to grow healthy. The assistance from nutritionist will boost the awareness in patients on how to take care the baby.

It is significant to eat nutritious food before you become pregnant because good nutrition supports your baby during the first trimester (three months) as their lungs, heart, brain and other important organs start to develop. Now days there are several malnutrition cases increasing everywhere the world because of the absence of nutrients in the food reserved by the pregnancy women’s.

• Folic acid
• Iron
• Calcium