Fertility Diet - 6 things in your diet might help you concieve

Planning to conceive? An unhealthy weight can get in the way. Therefore, it will be best to focus on 2 things:

1. Healthy diet
2. An active lifestyle.

Consume wholesome home-cooked meals. Take 3 meals in a day with a light snack in between and 3 to 5 servings of fruits and vegetables each day.

Fertility Diet: 6 things you should include in your Fertility diet chart.
 

1. Whole grain foods like whole wheat flour chapati, whole wheat bread, brown rice and oats.
2. Foods that are rich in protein like eggs, fish, chicken, lentils and soya.
3. Foods rich in folate like green leafy vegetables.
4. Use double fortified salt (with added iodine and iron) when cooking.
5. Omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids are very essential when trying to get pregnant. So include sunflower seeds, walnuts, pumpkin seeds, flaxseeds and chia seeds in your daily diet.
6. Lastly, iron is very essential, to prevent Iron deficiency Anemia during pregnancy.

It is recommended that women who are trying to get pregnant should start taking Iron and Folic Acid (IFA) tablets.

So, it is important to eat well to prepare your body for pregnancy.

source: https://www.unicef.org/rosa/stories/what-eat-during-and-after-pregnancy