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    Healthy diet in pregnancy is important to guarantee proper fetal growth and development, maintain maternal health, and enable lactation. Nutritional counseling should be provided during antenatal care and pregnancy to reduce risks of maternal, fetal, and neonatal complications as well as short- and long-term adverse outcomes. Adverse pregnancy outcomes are more common in undernourished or obese women compared to women with normal weight. While metabolic adaptations allow pregnancy to be successful with variations in energy intake and weight gain, excessive nutrient restriction can program the fetus's metabolism and increase disease risk in adulthood.

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    Healthy diet in pregnancy is important to guarantee proper fetal growth and development, maintain maternal health, and enable lactation. Nutritional counseling should be provided during antenatal care and pregnancy to reduce risks of maternal, fetal, and neonatal complications as well as short- and long-term adverse outcomes. Adverse pregnancy outcomes are more common in undernourished or obese women compared to women with normal weight. While metabolic adaptations allow pregnancy to be successful with variations in energy intake and weight gain, excessive nutrient restriction can program the fetus's metabolism and increase disease risk in adulthood.

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    Healthy diet in pregnancy is important to guarantee proper fetal growth and development, maintain maternal health, and enable lactation. Nutritional counseling should be provided during antenatal care and pregnancy to reduce risks of maternal, fetal, and neonatal complications as well as short- and long-term adverse outcomes. Adverse pregnancy outcomes are more common in undernourished or obese women compared to women with normal weight. While metabolic adaptations allow pregnancy to be successful with variations in energy intake and weight gain, excessive nutrient restriction can program the fetus's metabolism and increase disease risk in adulthood.

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    Healthy diet in pregnancy is important to guarantee proper fetal growth and development, maintain maternal health, and enable lactation. Nutritional counseling should be provided during antenatal care and pregnancy to reduce risks of maternal, fetal, and neonatal complications as well as short- and long-term adverse outcomes. Adverse pregnancy outcomes are more common in undernourished or obese women compared to women with normal weight. While metabolic adaptations allow pregnancy to be successful with variations in energy intake and weight gain, excessive nutrient restriction can program the fetus's metabolism and increase disease risk in adulthood.

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    SUMMARY

    Healthy diet in pregnancy should guarantee proper fetal growth and development, maintain (and
    pro-

    mote) maternal health and enable lactation. Nutritional counselling and interventions need to be an

    integral part of antenatal care and continue during pregnancy in order to reduce the risk of
    maternal,

    fetal and neonatal complications, as well as the short- and long-term adverse outcomes. Adverse
    preg-

    nancy outcomes are more common in women who begin the gestation as undernourished or obese

    in comparison to pregnant women whose weight is within normal ranges. Increased nutritional and

    energy needs in pregnancy are met through numerous metabolic adaptations; pregnancy is
    successfully

    achieved within wide range of variations in energy supply and weight gain. However, if nutrient
    restric-

    tion exceeds the limits of adaptive responses, evidence indicates that fetus will develop the
    alternative

    metabolic competence that might emerge as a disease (type 2 diabetes, hypertension, coronary
    heart

    disease and stroke) in adult life.

    Keywords: pregnancy; nutrition; fetal growth

    Nutrition in Pregnancy: Basic Principles and

    Recommendations

    Draga Plećas1

    , Snežana Plešinac2,3, Olivera Kontić Vučinić2,3

    Institute of Hygiene and Medical Ecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade,
    Serbia;

    Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia;

    Clinic of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia

    INTRODUCTION

    Well balanced diet has an important role in

    health throughout the lifecycle and affects the


    functioning of all body systems. Increased nu-

    tritional and energy needs in pregnancy are due

    to the physiologic changes of mother and meta-

    bolic demands of fetus. These are met through

    numerous physiologic adaptations including

    changes in nutrient metabolism orchestrated

    by placental hormones. Still, if the nutritional

    and energy needs are not met (especially un-

    der severe deprivation), evidence indicates that

    this will result in unfavorable changes of infant

    weight, size and body composition, and even

    in an apparently healthy infant, in alteration of

    metabolic competence that might emerge as a

    disease in later life [1, 2, 3].

    Healthy diet in pregnancy should ensure

    proper fetal growth, good maternal health and

    lactation. Good fetal supply is also achieved

    through increased intestinal absorption or re-

    duced excretion via the kidney or gastrointesti-

    nal tract. Nutritional counselling and interven-

    tions need to be an integral part of antenatal

    and pregnancy care.

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