Handbook of Nutrition and Pregnancy is written for the clinician and other healthcare
professionals who treat and counsel pregnant women and women of childbearing age.
Thus, physicians, physicians’ assistants, nurses, and dietitians, in particular, as well as
dietetic students and graduate and medical students, will find this book a useful resource.
In addition to the historical perspective and background to support recommendations
that are provided in each chapter, important for the practitioners, recommendations and
guidelines have been summarized and provided in tables that are easy to locate and interpret.
It is the intent of the editors that Handbook of Nutrition and Pregnancy serves as a
reliable resource that is shelved at arm’s reach by practitioners and researchers around
the world. By combining the historical and background information with the easy-touse
practical information of a handbook, the volume is unique among the contemporary
books that deal with the topics of nutrition in pregnancy and outcomes both for the
mother as well as for the neonate.
At a time when the scientific community is looking to complete the weaving of the
threads between genes and function, and to determine to what extent prenatal and perinatal
environmental factors are linked to childhood and adult obesity and chronic diseases
and metabolomics, Handbook of Nutrition and Pregnancy includes relevant chapters
that bring contemporary assessments of nutrition knowledge about these cutting-edge
areas and their relationships to the pregnant woman and women of childbearing age.
The overall objective is to take the most up-to-date information and to translate it into
clinically relevant practice recommendations.