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THE ROLE OF NUTRITION IN REPRODUCTIVE EFFICIENCY
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... The diet furnishes nutrients which may or may not be sufficient to adequately meet the nutritive needs of the individual depending on age, size, activity, state of health, environment, and genetic pattern. Unfortunately the word is often used to mean something restrictive such as weight control regimen.
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... necessitates knowledge of nutrition science and food values as well as of those psychological, socio-economic, and cultural factors which affect dietary practices.
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... must aim at provision of diets which provide calories and essential nutrients in amounts sufficient to meet all the needs for formation, growth, arid development of the fetus as well as the extra-fetal tissues and the metabolic and physiologic requirements of the mother, which may include repletion of maternal stores. The time continuum for adequate nutrition extends throughout all of life, but it is of utmost importance throughout all of pregnancy and lactation in order to meet the different demands during this period.
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