Sunita Chawla ¹, P. Boora ¹, A. C. Kapoor ¹, Yash Pal Kaur ¹, Veena Kumar ¹

Affiliations
1 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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