Pregnancy and obesity: How to reduce health risks for the infants

  • Date: 09-Nov-2020
  • Source: Gulf Today
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Pregnancy and obesity: How to reduce health risks for the infants

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Having a high body mass index (BMI) during pregnancy can have a major impact on your health and your baby's health.

Pregnant women with obesity could reduce the health risks for their infants through improved diet and more physical activity, say researchers.

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The study suggest that improvements to diet and physical activity can have an impact on the development of their children.

Healthy eating is very important. There is the concept that you're eating for two, but you're actually eating for yourself. There is no hard and fast rule that you have to eat double of everything.

 Healthy eating is very important during pregnancy. File/TNS

Always have a small meals in regular intervals and spread it