Early Life Nutrition and Tissue Development
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Public Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 March 2025 | Viewed by 285
Special Issue Editor
Interests: maternal and postanal early life nutrition; bone development; gestational; lactational and pediatric bone loss; dietary factors; phenolic acids; epigenetics; DNA methylation
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Dear Colleagues,
The first five years of life are the period when dietary behaviors that promote optimal nutrition, growth, and development are established or begin to be tracked throughout the lifespan. The mother’s nutritional status in the embryonic and fetal stages and the child’s nutritional status in infancy and early childhood can significantly affect child development and health.
During these sensitive developmental periods, disturbances in nutritional quality increase the risk of common adult diseases, such as obesity, metabolic syndrome, osteopenia, cardiovascular disease, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, cognitive function, and neuropsychological disorders. Therefore, early life nutrition planning has become a hot research topic.
This Special Issue calls for original research or review articles focusing on how early life nutrition affects tissue development, growth, and function in children. Early exposure to phytonutrients (e.g., from blueberries or soy), or breastfeeding versus formula feeding, will be considered in both animal models and human cohorts. Manuscripts on the mechanisms by which obesity and high-fat diets (in mothers and their offspring) may contribute to poor bone health are also welcome.
Dr. Jin-Ran Chen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- early life nutrition
- dietary behaviors
- development
- growth
- breastfeeding
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