Early Nutrition Programming and Health Outcomes in Later Life Obesity and Beyond /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Koletzko, Berthold (Editor), Decsi, Tamás (Editor), Molnár, Dées (Editor), Hunty, Anne de la (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 646
• Subjects: Medicine.; Health promotion.; Maternal and child health services.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Maternal and Child Health.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.

Obesity has reached epidemic proportions globally and presents a major challenge to policy makers and clinicians alike. Recent research has suggested that obesity has its origins in early life and that early diet can programme a developing fetus’ and young infant’s future susceptibility to obesity....