Indian government’s advice to pregnant women to shun meat and sex criticised by doctors

Indian government’s advice to pregnant women to shun meat and sex criticised by doctors

The recently published National Family Health Survey 4 (2015-2016) estimates that nearly half of all pregnant women are anaemic and that there are around 326000 maternal deaths every year because of anaemia. 1 According to a 2014 report by UNICEF, over 27% of all babies born in India are underweight...

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Veröffentlicht in:BMJ (Online) 2017-06, Vol.357, p.j3074-j3074
1. Verfasser: Dutta, Sumi S
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Anemia
Diet, Vegetarian
Evidence-Based Medicine
Female
Government
Guidelines as Topic
Gynecology
Humans
India
Maternal mortality
Meat
Medicine, Traditional
Modi, Narendra
Mothers
Naturopathy
Nutrition
Obstetrics
Pregnancy
Religion
Sexual Abstinence
Underweight
Vegetarianism
Womens health
Yoga
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Zusammenfassung:The recently published National Family Health Survey 4 (2015-2016) estimates that nearly half of all pregnant women are anaemic and that there are around 326000 maternal deaths every year because of anaemia. 1 According to a 2014 report by UNICEF, over 27% of all babies born in India are underweight at birth. 2 Some see the move as another promotion of vegetarianism by prime minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist government, which is against eating beef...
ISSN:0959-8138
1756-1833
DOI:10.1136/bmj.j3074