Infant Nutrition-the Right Foods for Each Stage
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Public Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 January 2021) | Viewed by 24891
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
In this Special Issue of Nutrients, we want to highlight the importance of diet in infancy and childhood for adult health and the development of noncommunicable diseases. It is well known that nutrient factors or a nutritional insult early in life may draw pathways for the development of later obesity, hypertension, type II diabetes, or chronic kidney disease. Furthermore, the development of early adiposity, as well as dietary and physical activity habits in infancy could affect lifestyle and health later in life. Examining the dietary and lifestyle determinants at each phase of early life should lead to the establishment of effective interventions to reduce later morbidity and mortality. This Issue will present analyses of dietary factors that potentially increase cardiovascular risk from infancy or lead to nutrient deficiencies that could affect development, evidence-based proposals for new research gaps, as well as the demonstration of effective strategies to reduce the risk of noncommunicable diseases.
To highlight the importance of developing early interventions and to find possible windows of opportunity, we invite authors to provide evidence of early determinants and strategies to prevent the development of noncommunicable diseases.
Dr. Veronica Luque Moreno
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- early nutrition
- early diet
- noncommunicable diseases
- infancy
- childhood
- obesity
- cardiovascular disease
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