Perhaps the most important aspect of the environment for any organism is the quality and quantity of nutrition it provides. These factors also have decisive, albeit mainly long-term, effects on human health and development. The type of nutrition received during the prenatal period and in early childhood has an influence on the risk of developing obesity, type 2 diabetes or cardiovascular disease in later life. The project EARNEST brought together scientists from many countries who were attempting to identify the factors that contribute to this phenomenon of "early nutrition programming" and...
Differences in nutritional experience during sensitive periods in early life, both before and after birth, can programme a person’s future
development, metabolism and health. Better scientific understanding of Early Nutrition Programming holds enormous potential
for implementing preventive...
Published 04/21/19
It is over twenty years since epidemiological studies that revealed that there was a relationship between patterns of early growth and subsequent risk of diseases such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and the metabolic syndrome. Studies of identi- cal twins, individuals who were in...
Published 04/21/19