toolPregnant: toolPregnant

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toolPregnant

Description

extra intake kcal/day for pregnant women. The number of pregnant women is computed through the number of 0 year old children each year (Lutz dataset). According to Human energy requirments , Fao (Rome, 2004) , a woman requires an additional food of 845 kcal/day and 675 kcal/day of food on average furing her pregancy and lactation period respectively. According to Naegele?s rule, the mean gestation period is 280 days (40 weeks) and the lactation period 6 month (25 weeks).

Usage

toolPregnant(demo, reproductive)

Arguments

demo	demo is the population divided by sex male (M) , female (F) and both (B) and divided by 8 age classes: 0-4, 5-9, 10-14, 15-19, AG1 (20-29), AG2 (30-59), AG3(60-79), AG4(80+)
reproductive	reproductive age classes (on which the energy requiremetns for newborns are distributed)

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