Dietary guidelines for pregnant and breastfeeding women

Philippa Middleton has been leading a team consisting of Professor Caroline Crowther (ARCH), Dr Carmel Collins, Professor Maria Makrides and Dr Jo Zhou (Child Nutrition Research Centre), Dr Alice Rumbold (Discipline of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Adelaide), and A/Professor Vicki Flenady (Mater Medical Research Institute in Brisbane) to synthesise the evidence relating to outcomes for dietary intakes of mothers before and during pregnancy and while breastfeeding. This material is informing the overall NHMRC Australian Dietary Guidelines, which were released for public consultation in late 2011.