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Food taboos during pregnancy are common and may have nutritional implications. Understanding these practices is vital for maternal and fetal health. To assess the prevalence and factors associated with food-related taboos among pregnant women in Gondar Zuria Woreda, Northern Ethiopia, 2024. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 422 pregnant women attending antenatal care services. Data were collected using structured interviews and analyzed with STATA 17. Bivariable and multivariable logistic regressions identified significant factors (p<0.05). Food taboos were reported by 36.97% (95% CI: 34.32-44.52%) of participants. Commonly avoided foods included milk, eggs, fatty meat, and honey. Significant predictors were age 18-24 years (AOR=1.36), income 1501-5000 Birr (AOR=2.27), first trimester (AOR=1.48), and multiparity (AOR=3.28). Food taboos remain prevalent among pregnant women. Younger age, moderate income, early gestation, and multiple pregnancies were associated with higher practice of food taboos.
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Ecology of Food and Nutrition is an international journal of food and nutrition in the broadest sense. The journal publishes peer-reviewed articles on all aspects of food and nutrition -- ecological, biological, and cultural. Ecology of Food and Nutrition strives to become a forum for disseminating scholarly information on the holistic and cross-cultural dimensions of the study of food and nutrition. It emphasizes foods and food systems not only in terms of their utilization to satisfy human nutritional needs and health, but also to promote and contest social and cultural identity. The content scope is thus wide -- articles may focus on the relationship between food and nutrition, food taboos and preferences, ecology and political economy of food, the evolution of human nutrition, changes in food habits, food technology and marketing, food and identity, and food sustainability. Additionally, articles focusing on the application of theories and methods to address contemporary food and nutrition problems are encouraged. Questions of the relationship between food/nutrition and culture are as germane to the journal as analyses of the interactions among nutrition and environment, infection and human health.
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