Early Life Nutrition and Future Health

Dear Colleagues,

Inequity starts before birth and is programmed in large part by nutritional exposures. These exposures, when occurring during critical periods of offspring development, including preconception, prenatally, and in infancy, can alter a child’s health trajectory and impact the risk for impaired cognition and learning, cardiometabolic and neuropsychiatric illness, and diminished ability to contribute to society in later life. This Special Issue on “Early Life Nutrition and Future Health” aims to: (1) Understand the origins of offspring health inequities from an early nutritional perspective; (2) uncover new insights into the environmental, biological, and social mechanisms that underpin these health outcomes in offspring; and (3) present novel approaches to optimise health trajectories and prevent cardiometabolic and neuropsychiatric disorders in later life and across generations.

Submissions may include original research, narrative reviews, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses. We are interested in highlighting novel mechanistic, epidemiologic, and intervention studies that target key windows where nutrition has the greatest influence on future health (preconception, prenatal, and postnatal periods) and that explore vulnerable populations (or models of these).

Dr. Kristin Connor
Guest Editor

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