Nutrition and Gender
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women interact with their biological roles to affect the nutrition status of the entire family and of each gender. Because of women’s cyclical loss of iron and their childbearing, their nutrition status is particularly vulnerable to deficiencies in diet, care, and health or sanitation services. Moreover, the nutrition status of newborns and infants is intimately linked with the nutrition status of the mother before, during, and after pregnancy.
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تاریخ انتشار 2002