Consumption of sugar and alternative low-or no-energy sweeteners has increased in recent
decades. However, it is still uncertain how consumption of sugar and alternative sweeteners …

Recent research aimed at understanding the rise in obesity and cardiometabolic disease in
children suggests that suboptimal maternal nutrition conditions organ systems and …

Background There is increasing awareness that vitamin D deficiency in pregnant women
may be associated with several adverse effects for the mother and newborn. The risks for …

Background: Infant body mass index (BMI) peak characteristics and early childhood BMI are
emerging markers of future obesity and cardiometabolic disease risk, but little is known …

The consumption of artificially sweetened processed foods, particularly high in fructose or
high fructose corn syrup, has increased significantly in the past few decades. As such …

Fructose is an increasingly common constituent of the Westernized diet due to cost and
production efficiencies. Although an integral component of our pre‐industrial revolution diet …

Aim Fructose consumption is associated with altered hepatic function and metabolic
compromise and not surprisingly has become a focus for perinatal studies. We have …

Abstract The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) approach answers
questions surrounding the early events suffered by the mother during reproductive stages …

Key points Fructose‐containing sugars, including sucrose and high fructose corn syrup
(HFCS), have been implicated in the epidemics of obesity and type 2 diabetes. Few studies …

Maternal fructose consumption affects the metabolic functions of offspring later in life.
However, the molecular mechanism remains poorly understood. Differences of microRNA …