# Leafy vegetables .. to protect your pregnancy

Washington: A recent medical study confirms the importance for pregnant women to eat leafy vegetables during pregnancy because they protect children from high blood pressure. The findings, published in the American Journal of Hypertension, indicated that those born to women suffering from hypertension, diabetes or obesity were 40% less likely to develop high blood pressure. if mothers ate too much leafy vegetables and doses of folic acid.
Folic acid – found in spinach, cabbage and broccoli – is thought to protect the heart in children. "Our study adds further evidence for early causes of high blood pressure," said Dr. Xiawin Wang, a professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, Maryland's largest city. "Our findings raise the possibility of early intervention before and during pregnancy.To prevent high blood pressure and its adverse effects from one generation to the next." citrus fruits and dark vegetables are a good source of folic acid.

The research team analyzed data from 1,290 children from low-income ethnic families at high risk of hypertension in Boston, nearly 67.8% compared to 19.2% for Hispanic couples, 38.2% of mothers had one or more risk factors for heart disease or diabetes, 14.6% for hypertension, 11.1% of diabetes, 25.1% of pre-pregnancy obesity and 28.7% of blood pressure between 3 and 9 years of age, being more susceptible to mothers with pre-pregnancy obesity, high blood hypertension and diabetes