Evaluation of dietary intake of lactating women in China and its potential impact on the health of mothers and infants

Table 3 Mean animal food intake (g/day) and the percentage of protein intake from different protein sources in lactating and control group of women ¹

	Lactating women								Controls
	2nd day (n = 199)		7th day (n = 195)		30th day (n = 196)		90th day (n = 173)		(n = 58)
	Intake	% protein	Intake	% protein	Intake	% protein	Intake	% protein	Intake	% protein
Meat and meat products	242 ± 17^b	30.7 ± 1.5^ab	227 ± 14^ab	29.1 ± 1.4^ab	225 ± 11^ab	29.9 ± 1.3^b	226 ± 10^ab	34.6 ± 1.3^ac	175 ± 12^a	41.2 ± 2.2^c
Poultry and poultry products	89 ± 13^ab	6.7 ± 1.1^ab	130 ± 14^b	10.6 ± 1.2^bc	110 ± 12^b	10.1 ± 1.0^c	53 ± 7^a	6.0 ± 0.8^ab	24 ± 6^a	4.0 ± 1.1^a
Milk and milk products	29 ± 6^b	1.0 ± 0.2^a	42 ± 7^b	1.1 ± 0.2^a	95 ± 12^a	2.2 ± 0.3^c	119 ± 10^a	3.2 ± 0.3^d	39 ± 12^b	0.9 ± 0.4^ac
Eggs	69 ± 6^ab	7.5 ± 0.7^ab	88 ± 6^b	9.4 ± 0.7^b	79 ± 4^b	8.3 ± 0.5^ab	59 ± 3^a	6.8 ± 0.4^ac	29 ± 4^c	4.6 ± 0.8^c
Fish/shellfish Seaweeds products	176 ± 15^b	23.0 ± 1.7	172 ± 12^ab	21.4 ± 1.4	176 ± 11^b	21.5 ± 1.3	124 ± 9^a	19.1 ± 1.3	118 ± 9^ab	22.7 ± 1.7

¹Values (mean ± SE) in the same row with different superscript letters (a, b, c) are significantly different (P < 0.05 ~ 0.0001). Bonferroni adjustment for multiple comparisons of the lactating women compared with the control group of women (P < 0.01) and a repeated measures analysis of Greenhouse-Geisser adjustment for asphericity for 4 different time points comparison for the lactating women.

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