Early Life Nutrition and Future Health

• Main Author: Connor, Kristin (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: Biology, life sciences; gut-brain; life-course epidemiology; milk composition; postnatal calcium homeostasis; fruit juices; phospholipids; infant; abdominal obesity; postpartum; L-cell; programming; gut health; development; sugars; pregnancy; gangliosides; non-communicable disease; prebiotic; dietary reference intakes (DRIs); adulthood; adult bone health; malnutrition; supplements; nutrition; dietary fibre; gut barrier; child; microbiota; folic acid supplementation; Healthy Eating Index; human milk; nutrient-sensing signal; fetal; epidemiology; developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD); dietary intake; pH; energy intake; human milk oligosaccharides; undernutrition; short-chain fatty acid (SCFA); LC-MS; eating behavior; gut microbiota; reprogramming; social inequalities; diet quality; reduced litter size; sphingomyelin; oxidative stress
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Inequity starts before birth and is programmed in part by nutritional exposures. If these exposures occur around the time of conception, during pregnancy, and/or in infancy or childhood (all critical periods of development) they may alter a child's health trajectory and impact risk for impaired...