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THE Minister of Food has shown his appreciation of the special needs of pregnant and nursing women and of growing children by the special allowances that he has made for these groups. However, these requirements are not so well realized by the general public. Anything that hammers in the fact that pregnant and nursing woman and young children are the most vulnerable of our citizens is welcome. Dr. Bourne's book gives a clear explanation of the requirements of pregnancy ; this is enlivened by information about the development of the fœtus not commonly found in books on nutrition. He might, perhaps, have brought out more clearly the fact, obvious but often overlooked, that the nursing woman has to supply all the constituents of her milk either from her food or from her own body. The extra needs during lactation are therefore more unquestionable than during pregnancy.
War-Time Food for Mother and Child
By Dr. Geoffrey Bourne. Pp. 78. (London, New York and Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1942.) 2s. 6d. net.
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War-Time Food for Mother and Child. Nature 152, 371 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152371c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/152371c0