Keeping the diet must be a mother who is pregnant. Because the food a mother eats will affect the unborn fetus. Well, one of the foods to avoid pregnant women are flaky. Consuming a large amount of chips, crackers, and biscuits during pregnancy may cause the baby weighs less than average at birth. Similarly, reported The Telegraph. To know the average weight of infants was 2500-4000 grams.
Chips, crackers, and cookies are foods containing acrylamide (or amide acrylate). Simple organic compounds can be formed in fried foods that contain starch. Formation occurs in the processing temperature from 120 degrees C and 30 to 2300 levels mikromolal per kg.
If pregnant women eat too many foods that contain acrylamide and eating lots of coffee, may be having a baby with a smaller head circumference. Normal head circumference size is about 30 to 37 cm. Well, this baby's head size was associated with neurodevelopment problems. If the baby's weight is very less, it is associated with health to grow up.
In a recent research note that babies born to mothers who consumed acrylamide, brain up to 132 grams lighter than babies born to mothers who did not consume acrylamide. While birth weight infants who are exposed to high levels of acrylamide when compared to the low levels of exposure, in contrast to about 100 grams. Moreover, if a pregnant mother smokes, then the chances of babies born has a 0.33 cm smaller head than average.
"The implications of our findings on public health is substantial," said the study authors.
Increased head circumference is an important indication of the growing brain. Meanwhile, if the weight of a newborn is much lighter than the average, it is feared in the future will be prone to heart disease, type 2 diabetes mellitus, osteoporosis, or lack of weight gain in adulthood.
"These findings provide evidence that supports the need for changes in food production and to provide health advice to pregnant women to reduce their food intake, which may contain high concentrations of acrylamide," said the researchers.
The scientists examined the eating patterns of 1100 pregnant women between 2006 and 2010 in Denmark, England, Greece, Norway and Spain. The pregnant women were given questionnaires on food frequency diasup. Researchers also examined the baby's umbilical cord blood can provide information about the levels of exposure to acrylamide during the last months of pregnancy.
The study, led by the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (Creal) in Barcelona involved 20 research centers across Europe. This program is one of the largest research project for researching about 14,000 children born in the city.
Professor John Wright of Bradford Institute for Health Research study is important because the calls were able to show a clear link between acrylamide and newborn health. He said there was evidence of potential toxicity of acrylamide, so that food manufacturers should be encouraged to find ways to reduce these substances in their products.
"The effects of acrylamide is comparable to the effect of smoking on the newborn. Advice our mothers follow a balanced diet and do not easily tempted chips and crackers," said Wright warned.
