Volume : VI, Issue : VIII, August - 2017

Impact of diet counseling on pregnancy and its outcome

Meena Mehta

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It is evident from the literature about infant mortality and poor dietary intake during pregnancy. Many health related problems are envisage and documented. Their dietary habits were related to their complaints about discomforts. Poor awareness about the diet and wrong beliefs about foods to omit during pregnancy had severe impact on the health of pregnant mother. An attempt is made to understand the improvement in anthropometric measurements and hemoglobin level of a pregnant mother from socioeconomic class. These mothers were given nutritional education and proper diet counseling during their pregnancy. It is expected to result in a better anthropometric parameters of pregnant mother and pregnancy outcome after diet counseling  

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Meena Mehta, Impact of diet counseling on pregnancy and its outcome, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : VOLUME-6 | ISSUE-8 | AUGUST‾2017

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