Green tea is a natural health booster for everyone, however there are two main camps when it comes to pregnant women. Some say that it's healthy for drinking, yet others say that pregnant women should stay away from it. This debate is ongoing and there doesn't seem to be an end to it, so let's get a better understanding of green tea and its benefits and disadvantages during pregnancy.
Green tea is a natural immune booster, so it is quite advantageous to drink it when you're pregnant. This keeps various diseases off along with unwanted infections. The problem that many pregnant women face is that they can have an increases in the levels of blood sugar and this can at times trigger gestation diabetes. Drinking this tea can keep the sugar levels in check which keeps the baby in the womb healthy.
Furthermore, pregnant women do eat more than the rest of us. This is because she is eating for two. However eating more can increase her levels of cholesterol and green tea has cholesterol reducing properties, so drinking it can only help. In addition, by eating more, many times a woman can get indigestion which is quite an uncomfortable feeling for the baby. Green can is once again coming here to rescue.
In addition, if you are a heavy coffee drinker, you know that you need to slow down on caffeine while pregnant. Drinking green tea will still give you a bit of caffeine, but not as much as coffee would. Of course if you keep drinking tea constantly every day, you will have more caffeine in your body than what is allowed, so this is one reason why you should drink it in moderation. High levels of caffeine in the body are known to cause miscarriages or reductions in birth weight.
What one should not do, however, is drink too much green tea during the first trimester. The reason is because it adversely effects the enzyme that controls the creation of folic acid which is needed for the baby to survive in the womb. However once the first trimester is over and the baby is growing normally in the womb, green tea can be easily consumed without any worries.
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This post was written by Joanne Bradley on November 1, 2010


