Handbook of Nutrition and Pregnancy

Citation

Lammi‐Keefe, C.J., Couch, S.C. and Philipson, E.H. (2009), "Handbook of Nutrition and Pregnancy", Nutrition & Food Science, Vol. 39 No. 5, pp. 593-594. https://doi.org/10.1108/nfs.2009.39.5.593.3

This is an extremely comprehensive book on nutrition during pregnancy and is both easy to read as a whole plus to dip into for information.

It contains five parts:

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  Part I: Nutrient and health needs during normal pregnancy.

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  Part II: Nutrient needs and factors related to high‐risk pregnancy.

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  Part III: Special diets, supplements and specific nutrients during pregnancy.

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  Part IV: The postpartum period.

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  Part V: The developing world.

The Nutrition and Health series has a mission to provide information to health professionals that is up to date. This book certainly does that – it covers nutritional requirements and guidelines for pregnancy, which while up to date does focus on information from the USA. Innovative information on nutritional requirements and also exercise is provided, which is extremely topical in a time when many women who are pregnant are keen to keep exercising.

This is an ideal book for the library of anyone dealing with nutrition in pregnancy.