Effects of Protein Deficiency on the Pregnant Woman and Fetus and on the Infant and Child

Abstract

MANY of the ill effects of a lack of sufficient or suitable proteins in the diet are encountered at all ages and in both pregnant and nonpregnant women. Some of them are particularly likely to occur during pregnancy, and others at certain periods of rapid growth in childhood when requirements are exceptionally high. The specific syndromes resulting from protein deficiency are not reviewed below, but attention is given to certain other effects that appear to be associated with pregnancy, with the health and development of the fetus, and with the progress of growth and development in infancy and childhood.In . . .