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Authors
Affiliations
1 Department of Food and Nutrition, College of Home Science, Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar 125 004, Haryana, IN
Source
The Indian Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics, Vol 34, No 2 (1997), Pagination: 40-48
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.
