- Title
- Food taboos and cultural beliefs influence food choice and dietary preferences among pregnant women in the eastern cape, South Africa
- Creator
- Chakona, Gamuchirai, Shackleton, Charlie M
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177444
- Identifier
- vital:42822
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.3390/nu11112668
- Description
- A well-nourished and healthy population is a central tenet of sustainable development. In South Africa, cultural beliefs and food taboos followed by some pregnant women influence their food consumption, which impacts the health of mothers and children during pregnancy and immediately afterwards. We documented food taboos and beliefs amongst pregnant isiXhosa women from five communities in the Kat River Valley, South Africa. A mixed-methods approach was used, which was comprised of questionnaire interviews with 224 women and nine focus group discussions with 94 participants.
- Format
- 19 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Nutrients, Chakona, G. and Shackleton, C., 2019. Food taboos and cultural beliefs influence food choice and dietary preferences among pregnant women in the eastern cape, South Africa. Nutrients, 11(11), p.2668, Nutrients volume 11 number 11 p.2668 2019 2072-6643
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- Rights
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RU DST/NRF SARChI for Interdisciplinary Science in Land and Natural Resource Use for Sustainable Livelihoods
Chakona, Gamucharai (Dr)
RU Department of Environmental Science
Shackleton, Charles Michael (Distinguished Prof)
SDG 02. Zero Hunger
SDG 03. Good Health and Well-Being
SDG 15. Life On Land
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