Top Tips
1. Keep fit: Staying fit helps your body's immune system, and keeps coughs and colds at bay. Take light, regular exercise three times a week.
2. Eat well: Eat regular, healthy meals including lots of fruit and vegetables; avoid sweets, cakes and biscuits and stop smoking.
3. Nutrition know-how: Pregnancy is one of the most nutritionally demanding periods of a woman's life when your need for vitamins and minerals increases.
4. Healthy you and baby: Try taking a tailored multivitamin and mineral supplement such as Sanatogen ProNatal Plus Omega-3 which contains all the essential vitamins, minerals and folic acid to help support the healthy growth of your baby and keep you healthy too.
Facts and Stats on Omega-3 in Pregnancy
 There is growing evidence that pregnant women, and their babies, may benefit from an increased intake of Omega-3.
Omega-3 fatty acids may help support brain development in unborn children , and recent studies have shown that when taken during pregnancy, Omega 3 intake may help maintain mental development in children up to the age of three .
Omega 3 can be found in oily fish such as tinned or fresh mackerel, salmon, trout, herring, pilchards, anchovies and sardines.
Omega 3 can only be obtained via our diet, and is not naturally processed within the human body.
90% of people in the UK are thought to be deficient in Omega-3 , therefore, supplementation with Omega-3 during pregnancy may benefit pregnant women and their unborn babies.
Before taking any supplements, speak to your midwife or doctor.
September 2006 |
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