Nutrition plays a key role in the development of the future baby during pregnancy and lactation. Following conception maternal adaptation processes include physiological, biochemical and metabolic changes that require increasing nutritional needs. Failure to meet nutritional needs during pregnancy may be related to prematurity and neonatal morbidity and mortality. Information on dietary guidelines for pregnant woman presented in this article is expected to be useful to health care providers for proper guidance on maternal nutrition.

Nutrition plays a key role in the development of the future baby during pregnancy and lactation. Following conception maternal adaptation processes include physiological, biochemical and metabolic changes that require increasing nutritional needs. Failure to meet nutritional needs during pregnancy may be related to prematurity and neonatal morbidity and mortality. Information on dietary guidelines for pregnant woman presented in this article is expected to be useful to health care providers for proper guidance on maternal nutrition.

Background: The population of older adults has been increasing in the country. Addressing their problems is complex. They are considered a risk group, with health and nutrition problems related to socioeconomic and other factors. Objectives: To determine the association of dietary habits and nutritional status with socioeconomic status (SES) in older adults attending a Municipal Program. Design: Descriptive, cross-sectional association study. Setting: Municipal Program for Older Adults of 4 districts in Metropolitan Lima, Peru. Participants: Adults over 60 years of both sexes. Interventions: Weight and height were determined, and previously validated surveys on dietary habits and socioeconomic status were applied to 115 subjects who constantly attended a Municipal Program. Main outcome measures: Nutritional status according to body mass index, adequacy of eating habits according to recom...