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Annotation: This resource provides information about special nutritional needs and healthy weight gain during pregnancy and breastfeeeding. Contents include a daily checklist for estimating what and how much to eat. Information about dietary supplements; medical conditions, allergies, and food intolerances; food safety; and other topics is included.

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Keywords: Breastfeeding, Federal programs, Nutrition, Pregnant women, Special health care needs, Supplements, Weight gain

Annotation: This chart provides information about state-specific legislation that mandates the coverage of medically necessary foods by employer-sponsored health insurance, Medicaid, and coverage and related services funded by other state programs such as the Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC); Title V; or relief funds. Contents include descriptions of medical foods products, abbreviations and definitions, a list of coverage types for dietary treatments of disorders identified through newborn screening, and a list of states that provide phenylketonuria (PKU) only coverage. Details about covered services and any benefit limits or age and income restrictions are included. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Access to health care, Diet therapy, Dietary assessment, Financing, Food supplements, Genetic disorders, Health insurance, Medicaid, Metabolic diseases, Newborn infants, Newborn screening, Nutrition, Phenylketonuria, Postnatal care, Regulations, Special health care needs, State legislation, State programs, Title V programs, Unfunded mandates, WIC program

Annotation: This fact sheet for health professionals provides information about using fluoride supplements to reduce the incidence of dental caries among infants and children living in suboptimally fluoridated areas. Topics include assessing the fluoride content of drinking water, primary sources of fluoride consumption, and questions and answers about dietary fluoride supplements.

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Keywords: Children, Dental caries, Disease prevention, Fluorides, Oral health, State programs, Supplements, Wisconsin

Annotation: This videorecording provides information about preconception health. It discusses birth control, avoiding smoking and illegal drugs, abstaining from alcohol consumption during pregnancy, vaccinations, receiving regular checkups, taking multivitamins and folic acid, nutrition, and physical activity. Vignettes with women at different stages in their life are presented.

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Keywords: Alcohol consumption, Birth control, Folic acid, Illicit drugs, Immunizations, Multimedia, Nutrition, Physical activity, Preconception care, Prenatal care, Prevention, Smoking, Vitamin supplements, Women's health

Annotation: [Funded in part by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Nutrition, Pregnant women, Prenatal influences, Reproductive health, Vitamin deficiencies, Vitamin supplements, Women's health

Annotation: This fact sheet presents information about the importance of folic acid and other vitamins in a healthy pregnancy and the prevention of neural tube defects in three sections: the problem, the effects, and the response. Once chart compares statistics of women who took a vitamin supplement every day for three months prior to pregnancy between, all women and those who did and did not participate in the Womens, Infants, and Children Program. The response section describes steps the state is taking to improve the problem.

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Keywords: Congenital abnormalities, Folic acid, North Dakota, Preconceptional nutrition, Prevention, State MCH programs, State initiatives, State initiatives, Vitamin supplements

Annotation: This book presents physical activity guidelines and tools emphasizing health promotion, disease prevention, and early recognition of physical activity issues and concerns of infants, children, and adolescents. The introduction discusses the Surgeon General's report on physical activity and health, and how partnerships between health professionals, families, and communities can promote physical activity. Section two includes how physical activity can be a part of each developmental stage, including infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence. The third section discusses these issues and concerns: asthma; children and adolescents with special health care needs; developmental coordination disorder; diabetes; eating disorders; ergogenic aids; girls and female adolescents in physical activity; heat-related illness; injury; nutrition; and obesity. Section four provides tools for defining physical activity; improving physical activity behaviors; characteristics of excellent programs and coaching; resources; Healthy People 2010 objectives; and growth charts. The guide concludes with indexes for development, tools, and topics. An evaluation form is included. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Asthma, Bright Futures, Children with special health care needs, Food supplements, Guidelines, Health promotion, Nutrition, Obesity, Physical activity, Physical development, Steroids, Vitamins

Annotation: This set of two videotapes explores two complications of pregnancy. Both videotapes are accompanied by a teaching guide. Gestational diabetes covers definition, prevalence, significance, screening, diagnosis, nutritional management, dietary strategies, monitoring and postpartum follow-up. Iron deficiency covers definition, prevalence, prevention, and treatment. Both of the guides contain references. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Adolescent pregnancy, Audiovisual materials, Dietary assessment, Gestational diabetes, Iron deficiency anemia, Iron supplements, Maternal health, Maternal nutrition, Patient education, Pregnancy complications, Prenatal care, Screening, Videotapes

Annotation: The research team studied absorption of iron from carefully selected iron-fortified foods that are now commercially available or are attractive candidates for future iron fortification. Because of possible adverse interactions with zinc and copper when intakes of iron are high, and because excessive intakes of iron may favor growth of pathogenic organisms in the gastrointestinal tract, the research team determined whether iron absorption (mg/day) is appreciably greater from a formula fortified at 12 mg Fe/liter than from a similar formula fortified at 8 mg Fe/liter. The bioavailability of cereal fortified with ferrous fumarate, a promising iron salt for cereal fortification was also determined. The research team studied absorption of iron from strained beef with vegetables fortified with ferrous sulfate. Absorption of heme iron from a heme iron-fortified strained beef with vegetables was also analyzed. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Child Nutrition, Infant Nutrition, Iron Deficiency Anemia, Iron Supplements, MCH Research, Research

Annotation: This paper summarizes a MCHB-funded research project examining whether multi-vitamin use or folate supplements during the first months of pregnancy reduces neural tube birth defects. The project is also considering the effects of excessive vitamin or mineral use in the first months of pregnancy. Mothers of infants with neural tube birth defects and other major birth defects will be interviewed. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Congenital abnormalities, First pregnancy trimester, Folic acid, MCH research, Neural tube defects, Vitamin supplements

Annotation: This workshop discussed three major programs (in Guatemala, Montreal, and Taiwan) for supplementing the diets of pregnant women with calories and protein. It also examined a metabolic balance study of pregnant adolescents with an emphasis on protein. Finally, studies using formula dietary supplements in New York, Omaha, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. were considered. The goals of the workshop were to focus attention on problems, gaps, and omissions in nutrition services for pregnant women; to assemble and evaluate current data on the dietary needs of pregnant women; and to prepare an interim report on the value of nutritional supplementation during pregnancy, with emphasis on calories and protein. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Service]

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Keywords: Adolescent pregnancy, California, Calories, District of Columbia, Food supplements, Guatemala, Metabolism, Montreal, Nebraska, New York, Nutrition services, Pregnant women, Protein, Taiwan

Annotation: In this report, the Joint Committee on Child Nutrition, created by the International Children' Emergency Fund of the United Nations, deals with the following issues: (1) the basic principles of nutrition in planning the purchase and distribution of foodstuffs in the development of feeding programs for pregnant women and nursing mothers, infants, preschool- and school-age children, and adolescents; (2) the use of dried whole milk, dried skim milk, and cheese in the fund's operations, and the relative cost of equivalent nutrients in those various forms of milk and milk products, (3) the value, in the fund's operations, of the provision of vitamin-containing foods compared with that of multi-vitamin and mineral preparations alone, (4) recommendations about meals for preschool- and school-age children, and (5) the relative value of a hot cooked meal vs. a cold meal. Th report includes the following main sections: (1) the general condition of children in war-stricken countries of Europe and China, (2) principles of child nutrition, (3) recommendations, and (4) concluding statement. One appendix contains recommendations on calories and specific nutrients. The report concludes with a list of committee members.

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Keywords: Adolescent nutrition, Breastfeeding, Calories, Child nutrition, Child nutrition programs, Costs, Infant nutrition, Infant nutrition programs, International health, Maternal nutrition, Menu planning, Nutrients, Nutrition, Nutritional requirements, Pregnancy, Vitamin deficiencies, Vitamin supplements, Vitamins, War