Healthy Diet is always important for all people in any age and even more important for a couple trying to conceive. Most of the couple can be conceive naturally without changing their diet at all, but for some couples it may require some determination and affords, especially if you have try to conceive after a few months without success. Nutrients deficiency or intake of wrong kinds of nutrient may be the causes, because bearing a baby requires a lots of nutrients and co operation of the all the reproductive organs as well as your brain and glands.
Most people view nutrients are something good for our body. In fact there are 2 types of nutrients, some are good, some are so so and some are very bad for our body, specially for women trying to conceive.
I. Macro-nutrients
1. Carbohydrate
carbohydrate is also known as sugar, it provide us with the largest percentage of energy between 40 to 55% of total calories. It can be classified into 2 types
a) Simple sugar
It is made up with monosaccharides (single sugar) such as glucose, frutose and disaccharides ( 2 single sugars connected together)such as sucrcrose, lastose and maltose.
b) Complex sugar
It is made up with polysacchirades ( many simple sugars connected together) such as starches and modified starches, and non starch polysaccharides (fiber).
The difference between complex sugar and simple sugar is the long chain of sugar and how it effect the sugar levels in the bloodstream after intake. Remember, all of them provide us with energy through liver carbohydrate metabolism.
2. Protein
Protein is also known as polypeptides, they are are organic compounds made of amino acids and can be found in meat, beans, milk, eggs or any source of food which provides our body the raw materials to build its own protein. Since our body can not store protein, we require to take them regularly. Researchers found that intake of plant base protein is more healthy than animal base protein, because it helps to prevent high blood pressure, reduce cholesterol, heart diseases and strokes, if taking together with complex carbohydrate.
3. Fat
Fat is generally included triester of glycerol and fatty acids. and can be souble or insolable under room temperature. Because of mis understanding, we most view fat is bad for our body while we continuously includes them in our diet. In fact, besides serving as energy stores for the body, it helps to maintain our body temperature, and promote healthy cell function as well as enhancing healthy skin and hair. There are 4 kinds of fat and some of them good to our body.
a) The good fat
i) Mono unsaturated fat
Mono saturated fat can be found in oliver oil, peanut oil, canola oil and other sources such as nut and avocado. it is said that it helps to lower the bad cholesterol LDL and raise the levels of HDL in some cases.
ii) Polyunsaturated fat
Polyunsaturated fat can be found in vegetable oils, soybean, etc. It is said that polyunsaturated fat reduces both bad and good levels of cholesterol. Over eating polyunsaturated oil may increase the risk of cancer.
b) The bad fat
Trans fat is considered as devil of all fat, it can be found vegetable shortening, margarines and all oil heated in high temperature. It is said trans fat lower good cholesterol and raises the bad cholesterol.
c) The one in between
Saturated fat can be found in all meas, whole milk, cheese, palm kernel oil, coconut oil, etc. It is said that saturated fat raise both LDL and HDL, thereby reducing intake of saturated fat will decrease the risk of stroke and heart diseases and arterial clotting.
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