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The weight gain during pregnancy is approximately distributed:

• 1 to 4 th month 1.350 kg

• 4 th to 5 months 1.700 kg

• 5 th to 6 th month 1.700 kg

• 6 th to 7 th month 2.500 kg

• 7 th to 8 th month 2.000 kg

• 9 th month 1.700 kg

• TOTAL 11 Kilograms

• You also need to feed it evenly, start adequate exercise, eliminating smoking, alcohol and drugs contraindicated during pregnancy. From this month you must start the continuous control with your doctor, who will clarify your questions about pregnancy.

Women should increase

In normal pregnancy a woman should gain about 10 to 12 kilos, an average of 1-1,5 kilos per month, up slightly early in the fourth quarter and more.

In general, weight gain will not directly affect the baby but the mother, since apart from the discomfort of being overweight (increased fatigue, shortness of breath, palpitations, leg swelling, varicose veins) are more likely to develop problems high blood pressure (preeclampsia) and diabetes, which are medical conditions that if they can affect the baby.

It is therefore important that your diet is balanced, ie that provides the nutrients needed for proper development of your baby, but do not add overweight and produce a possibility of complications, which will achieve an adequate combination of foods containing protein, carbohydrates, fats, minerals and woman should humanitarians vitamin, and avoiding eating too much fat, fried, flour and candy.

The balance of cholesterol levels has now become a global struggle, to the kind of modern or industrialized food, which stimulates its practical abandonment of natural foods, balanced nutrient-rich, for that reason and a set external factors, we are now in the midst of a great challenge for our health, that only with adequate information and advice, we can beat, so we offer the following tips provided for information:

1. Limit sugar and alcohol. They provide few nutrients but many calories and therefore contribute to high cholesterol levels by increasing body weight. An overweight body contains too much saturated fat and type of LDL or bad cholesterol, high.
2. Bad habits such as smoking and a sedentary lifestyle may increase the risk of heart disease and smokers should quit, regular aerobic exercise (20 to 30 minutes, 3 times a week) can lower levels and help prevent the buildup of cholesterol plaque. It can also reduce stress that can cause high blood pressure, another risk of heart disease.
3. Fish should be eaten often, 3 or more times a week, since research indicates that some deep-sea fish such as mackerel, salmon, herring, albacore tuna, lake trout, contain an oil called Omega – 3 or fatty acids, which owns the property proven to lower cholesterol in blood. The fish oil supplements, however, are not recommended because adding too many calories.
4. Avoid high sodium content in foods. Some patients with high cholesterol also have high blood pressure and sodium reduction, can help keep blood pressure within normal limits and should take into account that it is also an ingredient in many commercially processed foods.

Just as common medications such as antacids, laxatives, and cough remedies can contain large amounts of sodium, our recommendation is to read the product labels.