f ghaderi - Corresponding author; Department of Social Science, Payam Noor University, Arak, IRAN.

In this study, the researcher intends to review traditional beliefs related to dietary habits of women during pregnancy and delivery from the viewpoint of Islam; what kinds of foods, it knows, are harmful to pregnant women, and also how much is the impact of religious thoughts on nutrition, health and hygiene during pregnancy; in the end, what the researcher attends to is the resulting effect and changes in people’s thinking in the field of pregnant women’s nutrition created as a result of cultural, social and economic changes as well as understanding of some applied aspects of traditional health and nutrition study and its beliefs in order to promote the level of community health which is effective in representing some part of community health culture and more enrichment of people’s culture

Diet , Pregnancy period , The islamic perspective , Culture