​This easy to use text provides practitioners and researchers with a global view of current and emerging issues concerned with successful pregnancy outcomes a

With the aim to improve clinicians' understanding of the important effects nutrition can have on maternal health and fetal and neonatal development, Maternal-Fe

This work presents current information on the mechanisms underlying the role of specific nutrients in prenatal development, the influence of nutrient deficienci

Pregnancy is a viewed as a window to future health. With the birth of the developmental origins of human adult disease hypothesis, research and clinical practic

In pregnancy, maternal nutrition sustains and nourishes the developing child. Imbalances in either the direction of nutritional excess or deficiency can have ad