Maternal nutrition during pregnancy

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  • Maternal nutrition during pregnancy is especially important.
  • Maternal nutrition during pregnancy is known to influence the health state of the offspring during the whole lifetime.
  • Dr Rachel Huxley, Senior Epidemiologist at The George Institute and Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney explains that: While good maternal nutrition during pregnancy is clearly important, there is little evidence to suggest that size at birth is a risk factor for later disease in adult life.
  • Page 4 4 Other factors affecting maternal nutrition during pregnancy lactation include, poor access to health services and socio-cultural factors.
  • Maternal Nutrition During Pregnancy and Lactation is a joint publication of LINKAGES: Breastfeeding, LAM, Related Complementary Feeding, and Maternal Nutrition Program and the Child Survival Collaborations and Resources (CORE) Nutrition Working Group.
  • 6 Although there is widespread recognition of the importance of adequate maternal nutrition during pregnancy in developing countries, there is considerable uncertainty about its role in industrialised countries, where profound malnutrition is uncommon.
  • Impact of maternal nutrition during pregnancy on pituitary gonadotrophin gene expression and ovarian development in growth-restricted and normally grown late gestation sheep fetuses.
  • Low maternal nutrition during pregnancy reduces the number of Sertoli cells in the newborn lamb.

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