When eating vegetarian food before pregnancy, the key is to achieve a balanced diet and a reasonable combination. If the diet is too monotonous and only eating white rice and vegetable leaves every day is definitely not enough for physical care before pregnancy.
Vegetarians should ensure the content of plant protein: seeds and cereals, beans, nuts, mushrooms, and rhizomes. These are foods with high energy density and foods with higher protein content.A cup of carrot juice has the same mass of protein as an egg.
Grains and grains and beans should be used as staple food and eaten every day.(Grass and grains, poor beans) You can often eat grains and grains and soy milk for breakfast, without adding sugar, and use sweet potatoes, pumpkin, red dates and fruits instead of sugar.
Such as black beans and soy milk: black beans, black rice, red dates, walnuts, sesame seeds, cashew nuts, coix seeds, and water chestnuts.
Soybean and soy milk: soybeans, pumpkin, corn, walnuts, red dates, brown rice, coix seed, oats, and sorghum.
Mung beans and soy milk: mung beans, pears, coix seeds, lilies, almonds, white fungus, peanuts, lotus seeds.
Enough calories.Eat less white rice and use brown rice, black rice, red rice, millet, oats and whole wheat as the main food.Eat less refined white noodles and eat more whole wheat noodles.Eat less cold vegetables, such as winter melon and cabbage.Eat more rhizomes.
Drink more soups, such as: kelp, soybean, potato soup, seaweed, tomato soup, yam, lotus root, red date soup, bean sprouts, potato soup, carrot, corn, yam soup, monkey horn mushroom tofu potato soup, etc.Eat more kelp and soybean sprouts.
B The highest content of vitamins in coarse grains.Kelp, seaweed, Cigu, whole wheat noodles, brown rice, mushrooms, soybeans, and various fermented soy products also contain more vitamins. B12. Eat more foods that are high in iron and calcium: black beans, soybeans, soybean products, sorghum, longan, sesame, mustard greens, celery, seaweed, fungus, kelp, etc.The calcium contained in a cup of cabbage juice is equivalent to the calcium contained in a box of milk.
In addition, eat more nut seeds to supplement nutrition.Seasonal fruits, vegetables, mushrooms, fungi, etc. should be eaten regularly.
For cooking oil, you can eat more olive oil (olive oil is called liquid gold), sesame oil, rapeseed oil, and peanut oil.
A vegetarian diet is the healthiest choice for any expectant mother.According to reports, almost half of the population in Roma Linda, California, USA are vegetarians. Their pregnant and maternal women have absolutely no malnutrition after physical examinations in the hospital. Moreover, a child intelligence test performed in the province, the children with the highest intelligence come from vegetarian families.Therefore, our ancestors also said: "Eat vegetarian food, be wise and clever."In modern times, Dr. Hirayama, Japan, concluded after research: "Vegetarians are clear-minded, while meat eaters are turbid;Vegetarians have agile brain power, while meat eaters have a dull nerves.”
All dharmas arise from the mind.If our psychology believes that eating vegetarian food is not nutritious, then this psychology will affect physiology.Therefore, when we eat vegetarian food, we must first change our concept and believe deeply: vegetarian food is healthy!
