Breastfeeding Diet: What To Eat While Breastfeeding?

Perumal Murugan January 26, 2023 0Comments

Motherhood is a beautiful phase in every woman’s life. When it’s your second child, you might be aware of what all to expect but when it is going to be your first child, the changes could be overwhelming.

Your body changes when you get pregnant and your habits need to get changed accordingly. The same goes after you give birth. The only thing that should remain constant is realizing the importance of eating a healthy and nutritious diet on your pregnancy days.

While you breastfeed, your child gets the nutrition of the food that you had consumed. So, to make your child healthy, you need to eat healthily and properly. A balanced and healthy pre-planned diet could help you to eat what is healthy and avoid what isn’t healthy.

However, a pre-planned diet doesn’t mean a strict routine that needs to be followed at a particular time of the day. In this context, it means listing the food that is necessary for your body during your breastfeeding phase. Some of the parts of your diet need to keep an eye on while your baby is nourishing.

Tips for a healthy breastfeeding diet:

• Include a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables in your meal: Fruits and vegetables provide minerals, vitamins, and calcium that are necessary to keep you healthy and for milk production. Green leafy vegetables provide nutrients that simply other food cannot. Eating three servings of fruits and vegetables every day is recommended for the healthy nourishing of your little.

• Add a whole grain meal to your daily meal: Whole grains such as wheat, brown rice, cereals, are necessary in addition to fruits and vegetables to ensure the proper dosage of carbs in your body.

• Eat healthy fat and stay hydrated: Do no minimize your water intake at any cost. Plus to maintain a healthy diet, do not cut out healthy fats that include butter, ghee, etc.

What Not To Eat?

After reading about the intake that would be healthy for you and your little one, it is important to know about the products that should be avoided when you are in your breastfeeding phase.

What not to eat while breastfeeding diet includes deep-fried food, outside junks, excessive caffeine or alcohol, smoking, etc. However, these things aren’t strictly prohibited but the quantity of the food should be taken care of.

A Healthy Lifestyle: Myth Or Truth

Perumal Murugan January 2, 2023 0Comments

What does it mean to lead a healthy lifestyle; we have various opinions, if we ask anyone. A doctor would suggest eating healthy, a gym trainer might say a healthy diet combined with exercise, a monk would say letting of worldly pleasures. Often times we tend to think eating healthy, exercising are the most important factors of a healthy lifestyle, but is it…?

Eating healthier and living longer

When we go to a doctor, we are suggested to eat healthy and to maintain hygiene to protect ourselves against diseases and live healthier, but the thing is that there are individuals who eat nothing but healthy, exercise daily, sleep on time, and jog every day and then one fine day even such people get diagnosed with diseases like cancer. So, how do we explain this?

What does it mean to be living a healthy lifestyle?

The World health Organization says healthy living is a way of living that helps you enjoy more aspects of your life. Hence, A healthy lifestyle is a way of life where you are:

• Physically healthier
• Mentally healthier
• Happy or satisfied with the flow of your life, with your struggles
• When in adverse situations you have faith to face challenges
• You are content being who you are as a person

It’s fairly correct to say that eating healthy and being healthy is not living healthier. To live long and to lead a happy and healthy lifestyle one needs to understand the part and parcel of life. One needs to forgive, to let go, to practice a life one envisions. A healthy lifestyle is a broad concept in itself, a concept one needs to understand to understand one.

The truth behind a healthy lifestyle

Once upon a time I heard this real story about a sexagenarian lady who was diagnosed with cancer and the doctor said she doesn’t have much time left. The peculiar thing is that the lady accepted it with a smile; she continued her daily activities be it looking after her husband, or attending the Sunday mass as if she doesn’t have cancer or anything. Few years later she was still alive, healthier and happier. She said that she accepted whatever god has given her and she would have welcomed death in the same way she has cherished her life. Cancer was miraculously gone.