Early Nutrition and its Later Consequences: New Opportunities Perinatal Programming of Adult Health — EC Supported Research /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Koletzko, Berthold (Editor), Dodds, Peter (Editor), Akerblom, Hans (Editor), Ashwell, Margaret (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 569
• Subjects: Medicine.; Pediatrics.; Developmental biology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Developmental Biology.

Health problems such as hypertension, tendency to diabetes, obesity, blood lipids, vascular disease, bone health, behaviour and learning and longevity may be ‘imprinted’ during early life. This process is defined as ‘programming’ whereby a nutritional stimulus operating at a critical, sensitive peri...

Table of Contents:

• From the contents Editor’s Introduction: Early Nutrition and its Later Consequences: New Opportunities
• Discussion Forum: From Innovation To Implementation
• Focus Group: Breakfast Meeting: SMES and Their Co-Operation with Academia.