Many women of childbearing age in Scotland are known to be deficient in key nutrients including iron, calcium, folate and vitamin D.

BBC: Vitamin D and weaning advice for new Scottish mothers

Women of childbearing age, for example, would probably be ineligible unless they happened to have been sterilised, or unless they routinely used two methods of birth control simultaneously and regularly had pregnancy tests.

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More than half the women of childbearing age in India are anaemic a condition that can be much improved by fortifying food and 30% of Indian children are born underweight.

ECONOMIST: Child malnutrition in India