Optimizing Maternal Nutrition: The Importance of a Tailored Approach.

ABSTRACT: Improving nutritional status during pregnancy is a global interest. Frequently, women either fail to meet or exceed nutrient recommendations. Current strategies to improve maternal nutrition focus on a "one-size-fits-all" approach and fail to consider individual factors that affect the mother's overall nutritional status. The objectives of this review were to determine the importance of key nutrients for optimal maternal and fetal health, to explore to what extent current recommendations consider individual factors, and to explore novel strategies to close the gap between current guidelines and real-world challenges through more personalized approaches. This review intercalated different nutritional guidelines and recent scientific publications and research initiatives related to maternal

SUBMITTER: Brink LR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9492153 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature