title: Body composition changes during lactation in a New Guinea population.
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.
mesh_terms: D001823:Body Composition; D001835:Body Weight; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007774:Lactation; D008055:Lipids; D009512:New Guinea; D011247:Pregnancy; D012885:Skinfold Thickness; D013223:Statistics as Topic
chemical_list: D008055:Lipids