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Oral Contraceptives and Nutrient Requirements

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Nutrition and the Adult

Part of the book series: Human Nutrition ((HUNU,volume 3B))

Abstract

The last twenty years have witnessed the development, introduction, and worldwide acceptance of oral antiovulatory drugs. The implications of this phenomenon have been enormous. Never before has a population amounting to many millions of women of childbearing age been voluntarily subjected to a treatment with drugs which, in addition to their primary action in preventing fertilization, have resulted in many, often undesirable, side effects.

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