title: Canadian Consensus on Female Nutrition: Adolescence, Reproduction, Menopause, and Beyond.
abstract: To provide health care professionals in Canada with the basic knowledge and tools to provide nutrition guidance to women through their lifecycle.
  
  
  
  Optimal nutrition through the female lifecycle was evaluated, with specific focus on adolescence, pre-conception, pregnancy, postpartum, menopause, and beyond. The guideline begins with an overview of guidance for all women, followed by chapters that examine the evidence and provide recommendations for the promotion of healthy nutrition and body weight at each life stage. Nutrients of special concern and other considerations unique to each life stage are discussed in each chapter.
  
  
  
  Published literature, governmental and health agency reports, clinical practice guidelines, grey literature, and textbook sources were used in supporting the recommendations made in this document.
  
  
  
  The quality of evidence was rated using the criteria described in the report of the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care. CHAPTER 2: GENERAL FEMALE NUTRITION: Summary Statements Recommendations CHAPTER 3: ADOLESCENCE NUTRITION: Summary Statements Recommendations CHAPTER 4: PRE-CONCEPTUAL NUTRITION: Summary Statement Recommendations CHAPTER 5: NUTRITION IN PREGNANCY: Summary Statements Recommendations CHAPTER 6: POSTPARTUM NUTRITION AND LACTATION: Summary Statements Recommendations CHAPTER 7: NUTRITION DURING MENOPAUSE AND BEYOND: Summary Statement Recommendations.
authors.affiliation: Toronto ON.
authors.forename: Deborah L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: O'Connor
authors.affiliation: Ottawa ON.
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Blake
authors.affiliation: Edmonton AB.
authors.forename: Rhonda
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bell
authors.affiliation: Saskatoon SK.
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bowen
authors.affiliation: Toronto ON.
authors.forename: Jeannie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Callum
authors.affiliation: Saskatoon SK.
authors.forename: Shanna
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fenton
authors.affiliation: Montreal QC.
authors.forename: Katherine
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Gray-Donald
authors.affiliation: Charlottetown PEI.
authors.forename: Melissa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rossiter
authors.affiliation: Ottawa ON.
authors.forename: Kristi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Adamo
authors.affiliation: Ottawa ON.
authors.forename: Kendra
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Brett
authors.affiliation: Toronto ON.
authors.forename: Nasreen
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Khatri
authors.affiliation: Ottawa ON.
authors.forename: Nicole
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Robinson
authors.affiliation: Saskatoon SK.
authors.forename: Lindsay
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tumback
authors.affiliation: Vancouver BC.
authors.forename: Anthony
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cheung
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000067697:Adolescent Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007774:Lactation; D008593:Menopause; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D049590:Postpartum Period; D011247:Pregnancy; D016387:Women's Health
keywords: Nutrition; adolescence; chronic disease; deficiency; eating; eating disorders; energy; female; food; health; lactation; lifecycle; macronutrients; menopause; minerals; nutrients; older women; postpartum; pre-conception; pregnancy; supplements; vitamins; weight loss; women