Dietary guidelines for pregnant women

Dietary guidelines for pregnant women.

The nutrition of pregnant women is decisive in the course of gestation and the health of both mother and child. However, in the Spanish population, clinical monitoring of nutrition is rare, the control of bodyweight receiving most attention. Many studies show that pregnant women take too much fat and too little carbohydrate, and that intakes of fibre and several trace elements are lower than re...

Title : Adherence of pregnant women to Nordic dietary guidelines

Guidelines for dietary supplementation of pregnant women in a Rwandan refugee camp.

Units deployed on humanitarian aid may have little experience of the most appropriate interventions which can be expected to produce the most favourable population outcomes. Guidelines produced by UNICEF and the International Dispensary Association (IDA) can be used as a basis for planning. These guidelines were previously untested in Rwanda. This report focuses on iron and folate supplementati...

Awareness of resuscitation guidelines in pregnant women

We welcome this letter to the editor in reaction to our article ‘A fatal combination of situs inversus, pregnancy and cardiac arrest treated with an automated external defibrillator’. The author correctly points out the importance of left lateral tilt and early perimortem delivery of the foetus via Caesarean section. As the length of a Rhythm Puzzle is limited, the scope of our article was rest...

Dietary behaviour of pregnant versus non-pregnant women.

This study investigates dietary behaviour and the perceived role of food for health of pregnant versus non-pregnant women. Data were collected between 15 January 2003 and 15 March 2003 in Belgium. One hundred and forty-eight pregnant and 130 non-pregnant women aged between 20 and 40 years completed a self-administered questionnaire about their dietary behaviour and nutritional attitudes. Both s...