Food Consumption Pattern of Pregnant and Lactating Mothers in Rural Haryana

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Authors

  • Sunita Chawla
     Department of Food and Nutrition, College of Home Science, Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar 125 004, Haryana ,IN
  • P. Boora
     Department of Food and Nutrition, College of Home Science, Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar 125 004, Haryana ,IN
  • A. C. Kapoor
     Department of Food and Nutrition, College of Home Science, Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar 125 004, Haryana ,IN
  • Yash Pal Kaur
     Department of Food and Nutrition, College of Home Science, Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar 125 004, Haryana ,IN
  • Veena Kumar
     Department of Food and Nutrition, College of Home Science, Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar 125 004, Haryana ,IN

Abstract

Child bearing and nursing place mothers in a nutritionally vulnerable position. The period of pregnancy is marked by high accumulation of nutrients in the form of maternal and foetal tissue growth. During lactation there is a constant loss of nutrients in the breast milk, the essential composition of which does not change much with the imposition of nutritional stress.

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Published

1997-02-01

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Chawla, S., Boora, P., Kapoor, A. C., Kaur, Y. P., & Kumar, V. (1997). Food Consumption Pattern of Pregnant and Lactating Mothers in Rural Haryana. The Indian Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics, 34(2), 40–48. Retrieved from https://informaticsjournals.co.in/index.php/ijnd/article/view/11060

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Volume 34, Issue 2, February 1997

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