Overview
- Evidence-Based chapters covering cutting-edge research
- Covers the effects of maternal influence not only on immediate postnatal period, but also into later life and adulthood
- Clinical relevance of research emphasized in each chapter
- Includes section on International Aspects and Policies of Fetal Programming?
Part of the book series: Nutrition and Health (NH)
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Diet, Nutrition and Fetal Programming provides an overview on the effects of fetal programming on disease, and comprehensive looks at maternal nutrition factors and fetal programming effects on brain and behavior, and physiology and disease. It also provides an in depth look at specific nutrient restrictions and supplements on physiology and disease, the effects of maternal disease on fetal programming, mechanisms of programming, and a special section on the international aspects and policies on fetal programming.
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Table of contents (42 chapters)
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Maternal Diet, Health and the Fetus: General Considerations
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Maternal Undernutrition and Protein Restriction: Effects on Fetus
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Effects of Obesity, High Fat Diet and Junk Food on Fetal Outcomes
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
King's College London
Department of Nutrition and Dietetics
Nutritional Sciences Division
School of Biomedical & Health Sciences
London, UK
Victor R. Preedy, BSc, PhD, DSc
King's College London
Department of Nutrition and Dietetics
Nutritional Sciences Division
School of Biomedical & Health Sciences
London, UK
Vinood B. Patel, BSc, PhD
University of Westminster
Faculty of Science & Technology
Department of Biomedical Sciences
London, UK
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Diet, Nutrition, and Fetal Programming
Editors: Rajkumar Rajendram, Victor R. Preedy, Vinood B. Patel
Series Title: Nutrition and Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60289-9
Publisher: Humana Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-60287-5Published: 02 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86826-4Published: 28 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-60289-9Published: 13 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2628-197X
Series E-ISSN: 2628-1961
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIX, 621
Number of Illustrations: 43 b/w illustrations, 111 illustrations in colour
Topics: Clinical Nutrition, Medical Biochemistry, Maternal and Child Health