The Indian Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics

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Food Consumption Pattern of Pregnant and Lactating Mothers in Rural Haryana


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1 Department of Food and Nutrition, College of Home Science, Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar 125 004, Haryana, India
     

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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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Authors

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

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.