One of the reasons for weight gain during pregnancy is logically related to food and, specifically, with the risk of falling more often tempted to eat more satiating products but less nutritious. And not only food influences the mother, also in the fetus.
During pregnancy weight control is desirable, both for the mother or the unborn child. A recent international study (involving countries like Spain, Denmark, Greece, England and Norway) has found that some foods like chips are not advisable in the diet, largely because frying them at very high temperatures, produces a substance called acrylamide that unable to pass through the afterbirth and affect the growth of the fetus and therefore, in his weight at birth.