In this review, the authors summarize current knowledge on maternal nutritional
requirements during pregnancy, with a focus on the nutrients that have been most commonly …

The “fetal” or “early” origins of adult disease hypothesis was originally put forward by David
Barker and colleagues and stated that environmental factors, particularly nutrition, act in …

In the epidemiological literature, the fetal origins hypothesis associated with David J. Barker
posits that chronic, degenerative conditions of adult health, including heart disease and type …

This chapter seeks to set out what economists have learned about the effects of early
childhood influences on later life outcomes, and about ameliorating the effects of negative …

The pleasures of life are worth nothing if one is not alive to experience them. Through the
twentieth century in the United States and other high-income countries, growth in real …

This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic as a natural experiment for testing the fetal
origins hypothesis. The pandemic arrived unexpectedly in the fall of 1918 and had largely …

We review human studies on the relation between acute exposures to prenatal famine and
adult physical and mental health. These studies are observational and include exposures to …

Several recent reviews surveying the promising field of nutrigenomics 1, 2 have not
discussed the important role that epigenetic mechanisms play at the nexus between nutrition …

Many epidemiological studies have indicated a protective role for a diet rich in fruits and
vegetables against the development and progression of cardiovascular disease (CVD), one …

El bienestar infantil es importante tanto por razones éticas como económicas porque los
niños que prosperan en los primeros años tienen más probabilidad de volverse ciudadanos …