Eat Your Prenatal Bananas
I never realized until I became pregnant just how many potential hazards lurk in everyday foods. It's treacherously easy to eat typical foods without a second thought to any harm they may cause a developing baby. Consider, for example, the following foods that pregnancy books warn us about:
- Cold cuts
- Hot dogs
- Smoked fish or meat
- Soft, unpasteurized cheese
- Fish, such as tuna, mahimahi, tilefish, and others
- Runny eggs
- Alfalfa and other sprouts
- Poorly washed or unpeeled fruits and vegetables
- Unpasteurized juice
- Caffeine
- MSG
- Artificial coloring
- Artificial sweeteners
- Too much sugar, salt, and fat
- Numerous unpronounceable additives that are found in so many processed foods
Yes, it makes sense, but it's enough (after three hours of reading labels) to send you screaming from the grocery store!
The solution? Go back to basics -- buy foods that don't go through suspicious transformations. These are your safest bet. Hit the produce aisle. Plunder the bananas, which are such a rich source of potassium, fiber, vitamin C, and amino-acids. They even come in natural protective wrappers and are always conveniently ready to eat. For the most wary consumer, you can buy bananas organic. Finally, bananas are a food you can eat guilt-free and digest with delight. That is, as long as you're eating ripe bananas. Obvious signs of a ripe banana include a sunny yellow peel with brown dots appearing.
So go ahead. Heave a sigh of relief and devour multiple bananas a day, resting assured that they hold no harm, but abundant nutrients and benefits for the little life growing inside you. And since a baby's tastes may be influenced in the womb by what Mommy eats, you can look forward to a banana-munching baby -- and to all the resulting health benefits that will continue throughout your child's life.
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