Gestational Diabetes Diet Overview, Foods & More
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5. Foods to Avoid
Alongside the usual foods to avoid during pregnancy, people with gestational diabetes should be especially careful with processed foods like white bread, cereal, cakes and ready meals. Sugary drinks like fruit juice and soda can also be dangerous and should generally be avoided.
A dietitian may recommend grilled, baked or boiled foods over fried ones.3‘Gestational Diabetes Treatment Plan: Yale Health.’ Gestational Diabetes Treatment Plan | Yale Health, yalehealth.yale.edu/gestational-diabetes-treatment-plan. High-mercury fish like shark and marlin are dangerous. Tuna also has higher mercury and should be limited to four cans a week.6Evieosullivan. ‘What Can I Eat with Gestational Diabetes?’ Diabetes UK, Diabetes UK, www.diabetes.org.uk/guide-to-diabetes/enjoy-food/eating-with-diabetes/i-have-gestational-diabetes.
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