Nutrient Intakes in Early Life and Risk of Obesity

There is increasing evidence that environmental factors in early life predict later health. The early adiposity rebound recorded in most obese subjects suggests that factors promoting body fat development have operated in the first years of life. Birth weight, growth velocity and body mass index (BMI) trajectories seem to be highly sensitive to the environmental conditions present during pregnancy and in early life (“The first 1000 days”). Particularly, nutritional exposure can have a long-term effect on health in adulthood. The high protein-low fat diet often recorded in young children may have contributed to the rapid rise of childhood obesity prevalence during the last decades. Metabolic programming by early nutrition could explain the development of later obesity and adult diseases.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

• Publication date

  2016-06-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.3390/ijerph13060564PMID 27275827PMCID 4924021
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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