Even though sanitation was es

A preference for sons or for more sons than daughters has been documented in several countries in the world.

The expectant and lactating mothers are considered as nutritionally vulnerable group especially in the developing countries of the world. Due to nursing process mothers are subjected to nutritional stresses.

Thanks to Keith Campbell [1], Dolly the wonder sheep has arrived in Scotland, at he modest price of $750,000. Mankind has been thus dragged yet nearer to the Huxleyean Brave New World.

There can be little doubt that the last two hundred years have seen advances in health which have seldom before been witnessed in human history.

In the last decade, several international and national movements have focused their attention, on the long neglected areas of women's reproductive health.

In India tribals are neglected a lot, discriminated in terms of income distribution and social status.

Breastfeeding and lactational amenorrhoea play a unique role in child health, birth spacing and fertility regulation.