Dietary Fiber Intake and Chronic Diseases Outcome During Pregnancy

Abstract

Pregnancy can cause many complications and chronic diseases. Dietary intervention has been impressed on the prevention and treatment of diseases during pregnancy. Reasonable dietary intake and nutritional fortification can contribute to decrease the risk diseases during pregnancy. Common pregnant diseases are postpartum depression, obesity, and diabetes. This paper is to review the maternal nutrition and the effect of fiber diet in patients with gestational diseases. It is well known that pregnant women require additional nutrition due to a series of alterations in the body's regular metabolic processes following fertilization. In addition to that, nutrition is regarded to be related to weight gain and gestational diabetes, which in turn affects the mental health of pregnant women negatively, hence improving nutritional intake may reduce these complications and their related short- and long-term morbidity. It has synthesized that pregnancy physiological changes may reveal the risk of chronic diseases, including insulin resistance and dyslipidemia as manifestations of diabetes and obesity. Although the direct influence of dietary soluble fiber on intestinal microbiota has been extensively researched, the impact of a high-fiber diet on pregnancy illnesses has yet to be properly investigated. Qualitative analysis shows that dietary fiber benefits to alleviate the impacts where pregnant diseases bring. High fiber dietary can control the calories intake and improve insulin resistant. Furthermore, dietary fiber is thought to be one of the dietary components that might help avoid the development of unfavorable mental health. Therefore, emphasize that the intake of dietary fiber is significantly vital to help improve maternal and child health.