Japanese Pregnancy Diet
In japan pregnant women do not generally stop eating sushi when they become pregnant and many japanese pregnancy books suggest eating sushi as part of a healthy low fat diet during pregnancy.
Japanese pregnancy diet. 1 2018 1 10 pm. This is part 3 of the pregnant in japan series the first two parts cover pregnancy resources and how to find a doctor midwife or hospital in japan. Japanese tradition has it that postpartum women get certain kinds of sushi in the hospital during their recovery. Instead it is widely believed in japan that a healthy balanced diet consisting of fruits vegetables and milk will provide all the vitamins the body needs when pregnant.
Indeed doctors believe this is preferable to taking artificial supplements. Therefore it was suggested that ingestion of the japanese diet of mothers during pregnancy and. This effect was weakened if the japanese diet was only ingested during pregnancy and lactation. Women who experienced pregnancy in japan are often taken aback by the stringent weight gain laws of japanese doctors.
Japan s obsession with slender women may harm unborn children and create long term health problems for the. Ingestion of the japanese diet after weaning suppressed accumulation of visceral fat in offspring and reduced the amount of lipids in serum and liver. I say laws because they are heavily enforced. Many north american women living in japan during their pregnancy were appalled at the strict weight gain rules.
Staying slim during pregnancy carries a price.