Whether early diet influences long‐term health or achievement is a key question in nutrition.
Such long‐term consequences would invoke the concept of ‘programming’—a more …

There is considerable controversy over whether nutrition in early life has a long-term influence
on neurodevelopment. We have shown previously that, in preterm infants, mother's choice …

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the health benefits of an exclusively human milk–based diet compared
with a diet of both human milk and bovine milk–based products in extremely premature …

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27 Remarkably, relative undernutrition was beneficial from as early as the first week, 27 …

That events during critical or sensitive periods of development may “program” long-term or
life-time structure or function of the organism is well recognized. Evidence for programming by …

Objectives: To determine whether perinatal nutrition influences cognitive function at 7 1/2 - 8
years in children born preterm. Design: Randomised, blinded nutritional intervention trial. …

Background Despite data relating body size in early life to later cardiovascular outcomes,
the hypothesis that nutrition affects such outcomes has not been established. Breastfeeding …

The idea that nutrition during critical windows in early life could influence or'program'long
term development and major disease in adulthood has important biological and public health …

Background In animals, acceleration of neonatal growth is thought to increase the later
propensity to insulin resistance and non-insulin-dependent diabetes, whereas slow growth as a …

There is increasing evidence that health and development in adult life is influenced or ‘‘programmed’’by
factors, including nutrition, operating during foetal life and infancy. Early …