Background Maternal diets are not consistent with dietary guidance and this may affect the
health of mothers and their infants. Nutrition knowledge and motivation may be important …

Objective: A healthy diet during pregnancy is essential to ensure optimal fetal growth and
development. Women's awareness of dietary guidelines may assist them in following a …

Although a number of international diet and lifestyle guidelines during pregnancy (DLGP)
exist in the literature, contextualization to low‐and middle‐income settings is less common …

Purpose Food taboos during pregnancy and the postpartum period have been linked to
increased risk of maternal and neonatal death. This paper aims to present plant-based food …

Background Food insecurity (FI) occurs when people lack secure access to sufficient
amounts of safe and nutritious food. FI has been associated with negative effects on human …

Food security consists in granting everyone's right to regular and permanent access to safe,
nutritious and sufficient food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences in order to …

This narrative review aims to describe the knowledge regarding nutritional evaluation and
monitoring in pregnant women. We discuss care provided by non‐specialists in nutrition …

Food safety is the absence of unacceptable levels of contaminants, adulterants, naturally
occurring toxins or any other substance that may make food injurious to health on an acute …

Food taboos have a negative impact on pregnant women and their fetuses by preventing
them from consuming vital foods. Previous research found that pregnant women avoided …

Dietary behaviours of pregnant women are important as adverse maternal and infant health
outcomes have been linked with poor maternal nutrition. There is a mismatch between …