Overview
- New insights into the early origins of obesity and cardiovascular disease
- New research on the relationship between breastfeeding, growth and obesity
- Comprehensive reviews of the role of animal models in understanding the development of obesity and type 2 diabetes
- Evidence for programming effects at the cellular and genetic level
- Covers programming of obesity from basic science to policy level
Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 646)
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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. This volume contains recent findings presented at the International Conference on Early Nutrition Programming and Health Outcomes in Later Life: Obesity and Beyond - a satellite meeting of the 15th European Congress on Obesity, held in Budapest in April 2007. Basic scientific research, data from epidemiological studies and clinical trial results were all presented during the programme.
This volume includes articles discussing the evidence for an effect of early nutrition programming on later obesity and cardiovascular risk; the growing evidence for an intergenerational cycle of obesity; the role of maternal leptin in programming appetite; possible cellular mechanisms for altered energy balance, including mitochondrial programming and the effects of regulators of metabolism; and how epigenetic changes might be the fundamental underlying mechanism explaining programming effects. Consumer understanding of the concept of early nutrition programming and the extent to which early nutrition programming is taken into account in infant feeding policies are also discussed.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Early Nutrition Programming and Health Outcomes in Later Life: Obesity and beyond
Editors: Berthold Koletzko, Tamás Decsi, Dées Molnár, Anne Hunty
Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9173-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-9172-8Published: 05 March 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7713-1Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-9173-5Published: 31 January 2009
Series ISSN: 0065-2598
Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 196
Topics: Biomedicine general, Maternal and Child Health, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention