CELERY - 3rd trimester - Healthiest foods to eat during preg

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100 HEALTHIEST FOODS TO EAT DURING PREGNANCY

3rd Trimester

CELERY
Crisp and delicious, celery is more than a healthy snack: Consider it your new skin-beautifying food during your pregnancy. Celery is rich in silica, a mineral that is important to the tone and firmness of your skin. With all the stretching and expanding going on during this final trimester of pregnancy, your skin needs all the support it can get. In fact, silica can help your skin hold water, keeping it hydrated and healthy while it gets pulled ot its fullest extent.

* Even though silica is the second most abudnant element on earth, people commonly suffer from a silica deficiency and have weak, saggy skin as a result. During pregnancy, your skin is stretched to its limits, and ten after birth, the skin contracts back toward its normal position. Now, don't get any illusions that after labor, your belly goes flat and the skin around your stomach is perfect - it took nine months to get that big, and it's certainly going to take a few months to get your body back to normal. Eating foods like celery that contain skin-healthy nutrients can help your skin rebound quickly.

* Estimates suggest that women could benefit from about 40 mg a day. This is the amount in studies that have been associated with increased bone-mineral density which could reduce the risk of osteoporosis.

* You need more silica as you age, because as you get older, you become less able to absorb silica; your stomach acids weaken, making it difficult for your body to digest this mineral properly. For these reasons, you need to eat plenty of celery and other skin-healthy foods during pregnancy and lactation to help your skin survive this ordeal.

* Celery is a source of many nutrients, including potassium and sodium, the most important minerals for controlling fluid balance in your body. Celery was used traditionally as a diuretic and can help you get rid of excess fluid, such as the puffiness that can build up under your eyes and in yoru deet during pregnancy.

* Celery is a good source of vitamin C, that can help you and your baby fight off damage caused by free radicals.

* Celery is a source of vitamin C, another nutrient known to give you natural skin support. Vitamin C is needed for sprecialized cells in your skin call fibroblasts to make collagen. Collagen is like the scaffolding of your skin - itkeeps it strong and gives it structure. You'll need it during your third trimester as the skina round your breats and belly is being stretched. THis extra stress on the skin may cause your collagen to break down.

JONNY'S TASTY TIPS
I love to eat celery with a spoonful of peanut of almond butter on it as a filling snack. Or very your routine by dipping a stalk in hummus or plain yogurt, with or without shredded cheese. It's so easy to pack some celery sticks and carry them with you or chop up a stalk or two and throw in on a salad or into soups, stews, or pot roast.

But here's my favorite way to enjoy celery: juiced. Surprised? Toss a few cut up stalks into the blender with a cup-up pear and a couple of inches of peeled ginger root and then strain and serve over ice for a spicy, refreshing pick-me-up. Better yet, if you have a juicer, just juice the celery, pear, and gingerroot. I think you'll love it as much as I do!

One work of warning: The Environmental Working Group put celery on it's 2003 list of twelve foods most contaminated with pesticides. For your sake and your baby's, buy organic celery to be safe

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bjberry

Thank you for sharing these healthy food inputs with us. My skin definitely needs celery (it looks like fine rich letter and I want it a little smoother.)
Hugs, and a hug for your baby and family, too. :drinker: