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[Diet and physiologic pregnancy: energy and macronutrients requirements]
1Istituto di Biochimica e Biochimica Clinica, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Servizio di Dietetica, Policlinico A. Gemelli, Roma, Italia.
La Clinica Terapeutica
|March 5, 2004
Abstract:
This article briefly reviews the most important issues of past and present medical literature on maternal nutrition and fetal well-being, with particular attention to energy and macronutrients requirements (proteins, lipids, carbohydrates) in pregnancy. Guidelines for nutrition in pregnancy and a few examples of diets for physiological pregnancy will be presented.