Early Life Nutrition and Future Health / / edited by Kristin Connor.

• TeilnehmendeR: Connor, Kristin,
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : : MDPI AG,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (182 pages)

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 cognition and learning, and cardiometabolic, immune, and neuropsychiatric diseases and disorders. This Special Issue on "Early Life Nutrition and Future Health" has the following aims: 1. understand the origins of offspring health inequities from an early nutritional perspective; 2. uncover new insights into the environmental, biological, and social mechanisms that underpin these health outcomes in offspring; and 3. present novel targets and approaches to optimise health trajectories and prevent chronic diseases and disorders in later life and across generations. The research projects included herein highlight novel mechanistic, epidemiologic, and intervention studies that target key windows where nutrition has the greatest influence on future health (preconception, prenatal, and postnatal periods) and that explore vulnerable populations and animal models of early life nutritional programming.

Table of Contents

Early Life Nutrition and Future Health -- Preface to "Early Life Nutrition and Future Health" -- Paul McJarrow, Hadia Radwan, Lin Ma, Alastair K.H. MacGibbon, Mona Hashim, Hayder Hasan, Reyad Shaker Obaid, Farah Naja, Hamid Jan Jan Mohamed, Hessa Al Ghazal and Bertram Y. Fong Human Milk Oligosaccharide, Phospholipid, and Ganglioside Concentrations in Breast Milk from United Arab Emirates Mothers: Results from the MISC Cohort -- Andrea Ziesmann, Ruhi Kiflen, Vanessa De Rubeis, Brendan T. Smith, Jonathon L. Maguire, Catherine S. Birken, Laura N. Anderson and on behalf of the TARGet Kids Collaboration The Association between Early Childhood and Later Childhood Sugar-Containing Beverage Intake: A Prospective Cohort Study -- Jessica F. Briffa, Rachael O'Dowd, Tania Romano, Beverly S. Muhlhausler, Karen M. Moritz and Mary E. Wlodek Reducing Pup Litter Size Alters Early Postnatal Calcium Homeostasis and Programs Adverse Adult Cardiovascular and Bone Health in Male Rats -- Chien-Ning Hsu and You-Lin Tain The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Pregnancy Nutrients and Developmental Programming of Adult Disease.