consuming a healthy diet throughout the lifecourse helps prevent malnutrition in all its forms as well as a range of non-communicable diseases (ncds) and conditions. but the increased production of processed food, rapid urbanization and changing lifestyles have led to a shift in dietary patterns. people are now consuming more foods high in energy, fats, free sugars or salt/sodium, and many do n...

objective: to evaluate the importance of observing healthy habits by pregnant women that influences different aspects of mother and fetus health, we assessed the change in dietary behavior, and cigarette smoking after distributing the guidelines among 485 prenatal care patients. | materials and methods: the subjects were pregnant women who enrolled in health care centers of tehran university fr...