Lack of any significant benefit from zinc supplementation of mothers suggests that we should now not waste valuable resources looking at zinc in isolation. In addition, infant micronutrient supplementation (including zinc) may be more effective than maternalsupplementation (Shrimpton 2005).Any future research aimed at improving outcomes related to maternal nutrition should address ways of modifying the overall nutritional status of pregnant women particularly in developing countries. This may not come from the scientific but from the politicalcommunity where more resources need to be put into improvingthe overall socioeconomic status of impoverished populations andalso to improve the status of the women in such populations. Future research should also address other interventions such as workreduction in populations at high risk of nutritional deficiency .
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