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Nutrition Across the Lifespan

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What is essential both to conception and to healthy infant development during pregnancy?

Regular medical care during pregnancy

Full nutrient stores before pregnancy (correct)

Achieving and maintaining a healthy body weight

Avoiding harmful influences during pregnancy

What habit is important in preparation for a healthy pregnancy?

Achieving and maintaining a healthy body weight

Choosing an adequate and balanced diet (correct)

Avoiding harmful influences

Receiving regular medical care

What does infant birthweight correlate with?

Weight gain during pregnancy only

Healthy diet choices during pregnancy

Prepregnancy weight only

Prepregnancy weight and weight gain during pregnancy (correct)

What is important for women to achieve before pregnancy?

<p>Maintaining a healthy body weight</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is recommended for women during lactation?

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Healthy Pregnancy and Infant Development

Adequate nutrition is essential both to conception and to healthy infant development during pregnancy.
A healthy diet habit is important in preparation for a healthy pregnancy.
Infant birthweight correlates with maternal nutrition during pregnancy, particularly with protein intake.
Women are advised to achieve a healthy weight before pregnancy to reduce the risk of complications.
During lactation, women are recommended to consume an additional 500 calories to support milk production and maintain their own nutritional needs.

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Test your knowledge of nutrition across the lifespan with this quiz. Explore the importance of a healthy diet and lifestyle choices before and during pregnancy, understand nutrient needs and recommended food choices for pregnant women, and learn about the nutrient needs of women during lactation and contraindications to breastfeeding. Identify factors that encourage or discourage women from breastfeeding their infants.