Lettuce during pregnancy and lactation

Eating raw lettuce is highly beneficial during pregnancy and lactation. Lettuce contains a very important nutritional factor, folic acid. It prevents megoblastic anaemia during pregnancy. Expriments showed that mothers who eat lettuce frequently during pregnancy were free from nutritional anaemia. One particular of eating lettuce is it helps prevents habitual abortions. It may be due to its ability to influence the body to secrete more of the hormone progesterone.

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