Sunday, May 24, 2009

Diet For Gestational Diabetes


Pregnancy calls for a lot of sacrifices. People change the way they live right on the day they see the purple line on the test card.

Yes, pregnancy does bring in changes in you and you are also supposed to change with pregnancy.

Discussing about all changes that come and all that you need to bring in is beyond the scope of this article. We will discuss about the gestational diabetes diet in pregnant women here.

Gestational diabetes

Let us now take a look at what is gestational diabetes? Gestational diabetes is also known as diabetes mellitus. GDM is found to occur only in pregnant women.

If a women gets diabetic during pregnancy, but never had the disease before, chances are high that it is gestational diabetes.

If you are worried about the disease affecting the fetus, then you should stick to a gestational diabetes diet. A gestational diabetes diet has mostly to do with the carbohydrate content that you intake, but there are other food forms also included in gestational diabetes diet.

If you have diabetes during pregnancy or gestational diabetes, your body is unable to produce insulin properly or the insulin produced is unable to act properly.

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