Summer Diet Tips for Mom To Be Stay Hydrated and Healthy

Here are the few diet tips by the nutritionist for expecting moms to add to their diet in this hot summer.

- Dr. V. Krishna Deepika

Summer season is a wonderful time to eat a variety of fruits and vegetables. Here are the few diet tips by the nutritionist for expecting moms to add to their diet in this hot summer. To stay hydrated, include 8-10 glasses of water. Apart from water add mint lemonade, fruit smoothies, jeera buttermilk, tender coconut water and sugarcane juice to meet electrolytes and nutrients along with hydration.

Add leafy vegetables to your dals, soups and parathas to meet iron, folic acid and calcium. Include more vitamin C rich fruits & vegetables like guava, oranges, mangoes, kiwi, capsicum, tomatoes and lemon to absorb iron from your diet.

Avoid caffeine rich foods like coffee which may obstruct absorbing iron in your body. Summer season brings a lot of hydrating fruits and vegetables like watermelons, cucumbers, and water apple, ice apple which are rich in water, vitamins, nutrients and fiber.