When pregnant, ought to keep away from consumption of foods & drinks containing artificial sweeteners. According to the research team Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen, Denmark, there is a connection between artificial sweeteners & premature births.
"It's not the right choice if pregnant females consume high amounts of artificial sweeteners," said researcher, Dr. Thorhallur I Halldorsson, as quoted from the MSNBC site.
Artificial sweeteners are often hidden behind a healthy-label packaging products such as diet fizzy drinks. Content of artificial sweetener in soda is what often triggers hypertension & increase the risk of premature birth.
The findings were obtained through a study of 60,000 pregnant females in Denmark. The respondents were asked to document their eating habits, including how lots of soft drinks they consume for about 25 weeks gestation.
Females who drank at least cans of diet soda per day, 80 percent more likely to give birth prematurely. The researchers write these findings in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
About percent of females gave birth to their kid at the age of 37 weeks of pregnancy has not been fulfilled. Females who drank at least serving of soda per day in the work of pregnancy, 38 percent more likely to give birth prematurely than females who do not drink diet soda at all.
Chocolate Prevent Premature Birth
Unlike artificial sweeteners, chocolate actually proved to be a lovely food for pregnant females & fetuses in the womb. Pregnant females who eat chocolate can reduce the risk of pre-eclampsia, the increase in blood pressure which reduces the oxygen & nutrients to the kid. Eat chocolate regularly in the work of pregnancy to reduce pre-eclampsia by 50 percent.
In the United Kingdom, pre-eclampsia occurred in 70 thousand pregnant females & one,000 children each year. It is characterized by hypertension & may cause convulsions, blood clot blood, liver destroy & kidney failure.
However, research that examines the snacking habits of one,500 females in the work of pregnancy found that females who eat chocolate snacks, including hot chocolate, the risk is less exposed to deadly complications in the work of pregnancy. However, it is recommended to consume dark chocolate than milk chocolate & colored, which has a higher sugar content.
"Women with regular chocolate consumption of over servings a week reduced the risk of pre-eclampsia. Intake of chocolate on the first & third trimester is as important for mothers & children," concluded a study of Yale University as quoted by the Mail Online.
As published in the journal Annals of Epidemiology, cacao contains the compound theobromine which maintain stable blood pressure & help blood vessels expand.
In other studies, chocolate snack as much as servings a week also reduces the risk of death from heart disease by 70 percent. Studies in 2008 by a team of Georgetown University in Washington DC found that chemicals in chocolate can cease colon cancer cells.
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