My birthday is coming soon. What should expectant mothers pay attention to when eating birthday cake?

Pregnant women should pay attention to the right amount of birthday cake and eat less. Because birthday cakes contain cream, and most of today's cream is artificially synthesized trans fatty acids, which will reduce the content of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and eating it by pregnant women can cause cardiovascular disease, arteriosclerosis and other diseases. Pregnant women should try to eat as little birthday cake as possible. Birthday cakes contain a lot of sugar, fat, and trans fat. These ingredients are harmful to human health and can cause the concentration of low-density lipoprotein to increase and the concentration of high-density lipoprotein to decrease, increasing the incidence of pregnancy-induced hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease and other diseases; due to the high sugar content, it is easy to cause The occurrence of hyperglycemia during pregnancy.

Pregnant women should try to eat natural foods. Pregnant women can eat cake. Cake contains protein, fat, carbohydrates, multiple vitamins and minerals, and has relatively high nutritional value. But pregnant women should eat cake in moderation and must be able to eat more. Because cakes have a high energy content, there are issues with trans fats, colors, flavors and other food additives. Cake not only contains a lot of sugar, but also a lot of fat and energy. Long-term consumption of large amounts will not only cause excessive weight gain, but also increase the risk of some pregnancy complications. Today's butter cakes are almost always made from hydrogenated vegetable oil. The danger with hydrogenated vegetable oils is that they contain trans fatty acids and are synthetic.

The fats produced in nature are all cis, and the trans structure is more stable than the cis and is not easily destroyed. Trans fatty acids can greatly increase the incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, which is also one of the important causes of Alzheimer's disease. Therefore, it is recommended to eat less trans fatty acids and use a large amount of additives when making cakes, including emulsifiers, ghee, baking powder, etc. It is more harmful to the development of the fetal cardiovascular system and nervous system. Therefore, although pregnant women can eat cakes, they must not eat too much.

Secondly, birthday cakes contain high sugar content, which may induce hyperglycemia and gestational diabetes, or hyperlipidemia and hypertension, and may also cause obesity. Therefore, it is generally not recommended for pregnant women to eat birthday cakes to avoid adverse effects on the unborn baby. But if pregnant women really want to eat it, they should choose birthday cakes with less cream content and eat them in moderation and not too much.