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Nutrition and Women: Facts and Faddism

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Becoming Female

Part of the book series: Women in Context: Development and Stresses ((WICO,volume 2))

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Women are one of the most nutritionally vulnerable or high-risk groups, particularly during adolescence, childbearing, and nurturing years (Lowenstein, 1977). For the woman, nutritional risk, in its broad- est sense, goes back to her intrauterine existence and infancy. Evi- dence is now amassing to show that her growing years, adult develop- ment, and reproductive experience and outcome are modified by nutritional experiences early in life (World Health Organization, 1961).

Some girls, too, suffer from indigestion from eating too little—they think it unladylike to eat much; while others, who take very little exercise (and very few young ladies take enough!), suffer from eating too much. They give their stomachs more work to do than it is able effectively to perform. If a girl is to eat well, she must walk well. Walking exercise is both the finest appetizer and digestive.. far superior to any bitter or stomachic ever invented.

—Pye Henry Chavasse, 1871

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  1. Departments of Public Health and Pediatrics, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Charlotte Neumann

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    Claire B. Kopp

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Neumann, C. (1979). Nutrition and Women: Facts and Faddism. In: Kopp, C.B. (eds) Becoming Female. Women in Context: Development and Stresses, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3560-3_18

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