Sangeeta Pandey ¹, S. K. Tripathi ¹, J. Tandon ¹, C. P. Mishra ¹

Affiliations
1 R.D. Birla SmarakKosh, Bombay Hospital, Mumbai, IN

Abstract

Nutritional problems among children are common in India and one of the reasons is poor feeding practices among the young children. The best way of ensuring child survival is to initiate steps to improve nutritional status of children. Nutrition and hearth of child is the product of dietary intake and morbidities suffered by the child. Several studies have demonstrated that during major diseases viz., diarrhoea and acute respiratory infection, feeding practices are jeopardized.

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J. Tandon ¹, C. P. Mishra ¹, V. Garg ¹, R. K. Dubey ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Preventive and Social Medicine and Pathology, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221, IN

Abstract

Expectant mothers of any society form the high risk group from the nutritional point of view. Pregnancy is a period of physiological changes and high nutritional demands, in developing countries, the diets of such women are poor and thier reserves are minimum. To meet the needs of growing foetus an expansion of maternal tissues, lot of modifications take place in maternal hormonal system to ensure supply of nutirents to the foetus. If maternal resents are adequate, foetus is well protected from the Inadequate Intake during pregnancy.

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