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During the last decade, selected topics have been developed from the broad field of Perinatal Medicine. Some of them are frequently discussed among scientists as well as in public such as Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Allogeneic Banking, Stem Cells, or Nutrition during Pregnancy. The planned book series is going to address such relevant topics with concise handbooks.

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Obesity epidemic is a global problem of the 21th century for women in reproductive age and also the obstetricians and pediatricians. There are influences of mother´s prepragnancy and antepartal obesity, at delivery, for fetal programming and for maternal and fetal lifelong metabolism. The epidemiological results are important, but for the health care providers the skills for prevention of mother´s obesity with all consequences are essential. Evaluated programms in nutrition and physical activity will be discussed.

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Dan Farine, Cynthia Maxwell, Toronto, Canada.

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