Future Health Frontiers Q&A Women’s Health

How can pregnant women eat nutritiously without gaining weight?

Asked by:Bettencourt

Asked on:Mar 29, 2026 11:57 AM

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  • Blyth Blyth

    Mar 29, 2026

      How to eat nutritiously without gaining weight is a compulsory topic for every pregnant woman. Regular and quantitative meals: Eating three meals at irregular times is the easiest way to gain weight and can also lead to poor health. healthy . Therefore, regular and quantitative meals are a healthy way to eat. Refuse the temptation of fast food restaurants: The cooking methods for eating out are often high in oil, salt, and sugar, which of course result in high cholesterol and high calories. Therefore, reduce the chance of eating out and try to cook by yourself. This is both hygienic and able to control the amount of seasonings, so that you can eat healthily.

      Green pepper stuffed rice

      Ingredients: green tomatoes, dried mushrooms, onions, red bell peppers, green peppers, ham, white rice.

      Seasonings: curry powder, salad oil.

      Method: soak dried shiitake mushrooms until soft and cut into fine dices, green tomatoes, onions and ham into small dices. Halve green and red peppers and remove seeds.

      Chop half of it finely and scrape the inside of the other half and set aside. Heat the salad oil in a pan, add all the diced ingredients into the pan and saute until fragrant, add rice and curry powder and mix together. Place the fragrant rice into the other half of the green and red peppers, bake in the oven at 170 degrees Celsius for 25 minutes.

      Efficacy: Green peppers and red peppers contain high amounts of vitamin C.

      Black-bone chicken, glutinous rice and green onion porridge

      Ingredients: Black-bone chicken legs, round glutinous rice, green onions.

      Seasoning: salt.

      Method: Wash the black-bone chicken legs, cut into pieces, boil, wash and drain. Add 4 bowls of water to the black-bone chicken legs and make soup. Turn to high heat, then turn to low heat and simmer for about 15 minutes. Add the round glutinous rice and cook. Turn to low heat and simmer. Remove the white scallions and cut into thin strips. After the glutinous rice is cooked, add salt to taste, and finally add the shredded scallions to simmer.

      Efficacy: nourishing qi and blood, anti-fetus and pain relief, and improving fetal movements caused by weak qi and blood.

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