Journal article
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