Body composition changes during lactation in a New Guinea population
- 1 January 1975
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Annals of Human Biology
- Vol. 2 (4) , 395-398
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03014467500001021
Abstract
Some body composition changes during lactation in women of Karkar Island, Papua New Guinea, suggest that body fat reserves, measured by changes in weight, diminish during the course of lactation and that subcutaneous fat reserves diminish with parity. The data are discussed in terms of the possible nutritional control of fertility of women in a subsistence economy.Keywords
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