Optimize with Nutrition Balance

EXCEPT doing special exercises MATERNA yophytta pregnant women, to increase stamina during pregnancy pregnant women should also pay attention to balanced nutrition.

Because, with perfect physical condition is expected fetal growth is also going well. Therefore, good nutrition and balanced so that the fetus can grow flowers with a healthy and normal.

Pregnant women need to consume good nutrition, proper and balanced, one of which is folate, in order to optimize fetal development as well as supporting their own health. However, the facts show women of Asia, including Indonesia, could risk having a baby with a Neural Tube Defects (NTDs) defects of the brain.

Adequacy of folate in general play a role in reducing the risk of NTD and other birth defects, risk of megaloblastic anemia and homocistein lower levels in the blood, where high value terasosiasikan with an increased risk of preeklamsi.

Obstetrics and gynecology specialists from Hermina Hospital, Dr. Ifzal Asril, SpOG explained that the risk of NTD can be reduced by 80 percent by taking folate before and during pregnancy, especially in the first trimester.

“Folate is known to reduce levels in the blood homocistein. Homocisteine high levels is associated with complications during pregnancy such as preeclampsia, premature birth, and born to die,” he explained.

Preeclampsia is marked by high blood pressure, proteinuria (protein in the urine) and edema (swelling) after a 20-week-old pregnancy. In the womb, the fetus began early in life. Only at the age of 17 days of pregnancy brain cells already began to form and grow.

In addition to folate, there are a lot of the necessary nutrition during fetal brain development among the DHA, iron, Omega 3 and 6, Choline and Gangliosida.

Nutrition for critical fetal brain development during pregnancy, because the baby’s brain development accelerates during the 3rd trimester until the age of 30 months. Gangliosida sight was played since the beginning of the process of migration of brain cells.

Placenta model studied by Professor Murray Mitchell et al, showed that maternal gangliosida of the compartment (the mother) into the fetal compartment can be transferred significantly within 1 hour. Gangliosida concentrated in the brain and plays an important role in the development of memory, nerve cells, and the formation of synapses.

Gangliosida high concentration in breast milk during lactation and brain breast-fed infants, concluded that gangliosida role in infant development and can increase the value asupannya in gangliosida tissue.

Brand Manager System Anmum Fonterra Brands Indonesia, dr Muliaman Mansyur said that to meet the need of folate, can be done by consuming 2 servings of milk that have been fortified Anmum folic acid (to give the amount equivalent to 680 ug DFE) per day for 12 weeks significantly increased folate levels red blood cells and plasma folate that can help reduce the risk of having a baby and the NTD can reduce the levels seen homocisteine.

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