Main description:

Early Nutrition and Long-Term Health: Mechanisms, Consequences, and Opportunities, Second Edition updates and expands upon the content in the first edition and adds focus on actionable and modifiable aspects of nutrition that have an impact on long-term health and disease.

Part I examines the associations and the mechanisms of early life nutrition on growth as well as the development of cognitive, metabolic, immune, and dietary patterns and behaviors. Part II reviews the associations and impact of early life nutrition on non-communicable disease as well as their societal and economic impact. Part III focuses on the dietary and nutritional needs and approaches to optimizing the different stages of nutrition, from conception to the second year of life.

Nutritionists, pediatricians, academics with research interest in this area, and food industry and healthcare professionals working in infant/child product and services, as well as students studying related disciplines, will benefit from this updated reference.

Contents:

1. Introduction: Nutrition in Early Life

Part I Nutrition in Early Life and long-term health impact 2. Prenatal Nutrition and Nutrition in Pregnancy: Effects on Long-Term Growth and Development 3. Breastfeeding and Human Milk: Short and Long-Term Health Benefits to the Recipient Infant 4. Early Nutrition: Effects on Infants' Growth and Body Composition 5. Early Nutrition: Effects on Short and Long-Term Health [PUFA Iron]: Two Examples 6. Early Nutrition: Effects on Short and Long-Term Health [PUFA Iron]: Two Examples 7. The Effect of Infant Allergen/Immunogen Exposure on Long-Term Health 8. Early Nutrition and its Effect on Allergy Development 9. Impact of Early Nutrition on Intestinal Microbiome: Effects on Immunity and Long-Term Health 10. Eating Development in Young Children: Understanding the Complex Interplay of Developmental Domains

Part II Early Nutrition and Non-communicable Disease 11. Early Nutrition and its Effect on the Development of Celiac Disease 12. Early Nutrition and its Effect on the Development of Obesity 13. Early Life Nutrition and its Effect on the Development of Type-2 Diabetes 14. Early Nutrition and its Effect on the Development of Allergic Diseases 15. Early Nutrition and its Effect on the Development of Functional GI Disorders

Part III Nutritional Programming in the First 1,000 Days - Taking Action 16. Maternal and Fetal Nutrition and Diet Needs 17. Nutritional and Dietary Needs in Infant Prematurity 18. Establishing Healthy Eating Patterns in Early Infancy 19. Effect of Parent Feeding Approaches on Long-Term Diet and Eating Patterns 20. Programming Long-Term Health: Nutrition and Diet in Infants Aged 6 Months to 1 Year 21. Programming Long-Term Health: Nutrition and Diet in Toddlers