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Peer reviewedAbidoye, R. O.; Akinpelumi, O. B. – Early Child Development and Care, 1997
Investigated taboos and beliefs about the nutritional value of foods among pregnant women from Nigeria's Hausa and Yoruba tribes. Found that Hausa women had greater nutritional anemia than Yoruba women; their babies had greater incidence of low birth weights and smaller chest and head measurements. Hausa women learned food-related beliefs from…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Developing Nations, Early Intervention, Early Parenthood
