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Principles and Practice of Maternal Nutrition [Hardcover]

B. Luke (Author), L. Keith (Author)


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  • Hardcover: 161 pages
  • Publisher: Informa Healthcare; 1St Edition edition (June 15, 1992)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1850703248
  • ISBN-13: 978-1850703242
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,211,636 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Barbara Luke is Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Medicine, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University. She has earned degrees in nursing, nutrition, population studies, and maternal-child health. During the past twenty-five years her research has focused on improving outcomes in multiple births through both clinical and vital statistics research. She is the recipient of the 2005 Agnes Higgins Award from the March of Dimes for distinguished lifetime achievement in maternal-fetal nutrition. In 2009 the Institute of Medicine used the weight gain guidelines developed by her research team as the newest national recommendations for women pregnant with twins.

Health and nutrition information is available on her website, www.drbarbaraluke.com, along with a newly-launched line of maternity clothes specifically for women expecting twins, triplets, or quads.

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Pregnancy, although a normal physiological process, imposes additional nutritional demands on the mother. Read the first page
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pregravid weight, placental ratio, phenylalanine tolerance, maternal phenylketonuria, brain cell number, methylated xanthines, gestational weight gain, maternal weight gain, maternal alcoholism, underweight women, stillbirth rate, normal weight women, lactase activity, phenylalanine levels, pregnant diabetics, infant birth weight, maternal nutrition, iron therapy, maternal smoking, iron balance
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United States, New York, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy Press, Recommended Dietary Allowances, Diabetes Care, Academic Press, American Diabetes Association, Government Printing Office, American Dietetic Association, World War, Collaborative Perinatal Project, Handbook of Vitamins, Van Nostrand Reinhold, Alcoholism Clin, Excerpta Medica, National Research Council, The Relationship of Nutrition
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