Early Nutrition and Long-Term Health : Mechanisms, Consequences, and Opportunities.: Mechanisms, Consequences, and Opportunities. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Names: Saavedra, Jose M; Dattilo, Anne
• Contents: Intro -- Early Nutrition and Long-Term Health: Mechanisms, Consequences, and Opportunities -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Part I Nutrition in early life: Mechanisms and impact on long term health -- Chapter 1 Nutrition in the first 1000 days of life: Society's greatest opportunity -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Nutrition and health in today's global landscape -- 1.3 COVID-19 -- 1.4 Nutrition as a determinant of health -- 1.5 The long-term impact of early nutrition -- 1.5.1 Programming influences -- 1.5.1.1 Prenatal influences 1.5.1.2 Breastfeeding and complementary foods -- 1.5.2 Key long-term outcomes -- 1.5.2.1 Neurodevelopment and cognition -- 1.5.2.2 Obesity and cardiovascular disease -- 1.5.2.3 Allergy and immune disorders -- 1.5.3 Emerging mechanisms of programming -- 1.5.3.1 Epigenetics -- 1.5.3.2 Microbial environment and the intestinal microbiota -- 1.6 The first 1000 days, a window of opportunity -- 1.7 Investing in early life nutrition -- 1.8 Tackling the challenges to improve early life nutrition -- 1.8.1 Food systems and environmental threats -- 1.8.2 Multiple stakeholder involvement and its challenges 1.8.3 Infant nutrition is a driver and a marker of progress -- 1.9 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 2 Programming long-term health: Maternal and fetal nutritional and dietary needs -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Periconceptional nutritional and dietary needs -- 2.2.1 Undernutrition -- 2.2.2 Overnutrition -- 2.2.3 Nutrients -- 2.2.3.1 Iron -- 2.2.3.2 Folate -- 2.2.3.3 Iodine -- 2.2.3.4 Vitamin D -- 2.3 Nutrition during pregnancy -- 2.3.1 Low energy intake and inadequate gestational weight gain -- 2.3.2 High energy intake and excessive gestational weight gain -- 2.3.3 Macronutrients 2.3.4 Micronutrients -- 2.3.4.1 B-vitamins -- 2.3.4.2 Polyunsaturated fatty acids -- 2.3.4.3 Vitamin D -- 2.3.4.4 Calcium -- 2.3.4.5 Iron -- 2.4 Nutrition during the post-natal period -- 2.4.1 Maternal diet during lactation -- 2.4.2 Maternal weight change -- 2.5 Conclusions -- 2.6 Future trends and research -- Sources of additional information -- References -- Chapter 3 Long-term health outcomes of breastfeeding -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Neurodevelopment -- 3.3 Obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular risk factors -- 3.4 Allergy and autoimmunity -- 3.5 Malignancies -- 3.6 Conclusions 3.7 Future research trends -- Sources of additional information -- References -- Chapter 4 Early nutrition: Effects on infants' growth and body composition -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The importance of a life cycle approach for promoting infants and children health -- 4.3 Programming of growth and body composition of term newborn by early nutrition -- 4.4 Early nutrition: Effect on growth and body composition at birth and during weight loss -- 4.5 Body composition in relation to breastfeeding and formula feeding
• Edition: 2nd edition
• Publisher Details: San Diego : Elsevier Science & Technology
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 618.92/01; Infants -- Nutrition; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780128244050; 0128244054
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