Dual Nutrition Burden in Women
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2010
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Too early, too close, too many and too late"pregnancies adversely affect nutrition and health status of
the mother child dyad; timely contraceptive care has become an indirect effective intervention to prevent
deterioration in maternal and child nutrition. Epidemiological studies from India documented the magnitude and
adverse consequences o f Chronic Energy Deficiency (CED) on the mother child dyad and paved way for intervention
programmes to address under nutrition during pregnancy and lactation. Yet another important indirect cause of
under nutrition continues to be infection s, under nutrition increases the susceptibility to infections; infections
aggravate under nutrition. Over the last decade there will be increase in under nutrition in women is due to HIV
infection. While under nutrition continues to be a major problem as in the earlier decades, the current decades has
witnessed the progressive rise in over nutrition in women during reproductive age especially among the affluent
segments o f population both in urban and in rural areas and associated steep increases in the prevalence o f non
communicable diseases. In this an attempt had been made to find data on the factors responsible for emerging
problem o f dual burden o f mai nutrition and associated health hazards in women.