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The influence of maternal and infant nutrition on cardiometabolic traits: novel findings and future research directions from four Canadian birth cohort studies

Abstract

A mother's nutritional choices while pregnant may have a great influence on her baby's development in the womb and during infancy. There is evidence that what a mother eats during pregnancy interacts with her genes to affect her child's susceptibility to poor health outcomes including childhood obesity, pre-diabetes, allergy and asthma. Furthermore, after what an infant eats can change his or her intestinal bacteria, which can further influence …

Authors

de Souza RJ; Zulyniak MA; Stearns JC; Wahi G; Teo K; Gupta M; Sears MR; Subbarao P; Anand SS

Journal

Proceedings of The Nutrition Society, Vol. 78, No. 3, pp. 351–361

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Publication Date

August 2019

DOI

10.1017/s0029665119000612

ISSN

0029-6651