ReviewJournal of translational medicine2015
Milk consumption during pregnancy increases birth weight, a risk factor for the development of diseases of civilization.
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- Maternal Consumption of Milk or Dairy Products During Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Dose-Response Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Pooled it
- Effects of Milk and Dairy Product Consumption on Pregnancy and Lactation Outcomes: A Systematic Review.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2019Pooled it
- Dairy Products: Is There an Impact on Promotion of Prostate Cancer? A Review of the Literature.Frontiers in nutrition · 2019Pooled it
- Absence of detectable bovine leukemia virus miRNAs in human cancer small RNA-seq datasets.Microbiology spectrum · 2026Article
- Trimester-specific associations of maternal prenatal dietary patterns with fetal growth: a prospective pre-birth cohort study.European journal of nutrition · 2026Article
- The contribution of maternal glucose to birth weight is smaller in Uganda (sub-Saharan Africa) than in Afro-Caribbean or white ethnicity mother-child pairs from outside Africa.BMJ global health · 2026Article
- An Updated Review on the Complex Association of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) and Depression.Current cardiology reviews · 2025Review
- Remnant cholesterol, but not other cholesterol parameters, is associated with gestational diabetes mellitus in pregnant women: a prospective cohort study.Journal of translational medicine · 2023Article
- Exploring the Heart-Mind Connection: Unraveling the Shared Pathways between Depression and Cardiovascular Diseases.Biomedicines · 2023Review
- The Role of Cow's Milk Consumption in Breast Cancer Initiation and Progression.Current nutrition reports · 2023Review
- Multivariate Pharma Technology Transfer Analysis: Civilization Diseases and COVID-19 Perspective.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Determinants of fetal macrosomia among live births in southern Ethiopia: a matched case-control study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2022Article
- Maternal First-Trimester Cow-Milk Intake Is Positively Associated with Childhood General and Abdominal Visceral Fat Mass and Lean Mass but Not with Other Cardiometabolic Risk Factors at the Age of 10 Years.The Journal of nutrition · 2021Article
- Lifetime Impact of Cow's Milk on Overactivation of mTORC1: From Fetal to Childhood Overgrowth, Acne, Diabetes, Cancers, and Neurodegeneration.Biomolecules · 2021Review
- Evolution of Lactase Persistence: Turbo-Charging Adaptation in Growth Under the Selective Pressure of Maternal Mortality?Frontiers in physiology · 2021Article
- Calcium intake from diet and supplement use during early pregnancy: the Expect study I.European journal of nutrition · 2020Article
- Nutritional and non-nutritional factors associated with low birth weight in Sawula Town, Gamo Gofa Zone, Southern Ethiopia.BMC research notes · 2019Article
- Exosomes of pasteurized milk: potential pathogens of Western diseases.Journal of translational medicine · 2019Review
- Dietary Quantity and Diversity among Anemic Pregnant Women in Madura Island, Indonesia.Journal of nutrition and metabolism · 2019Article
- Consumption habits of pregnant women in the Jazan region, Saudi Arabia: a descriptive study.BMC research notes · 2018Article
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Abstract
Antenatal dietary lifestyle intervention and nutrition during pregnancy and early postnatal life are important for appropriate lifelong metabolic programming. Epidemiological evidence underlines the crucial role of increased birth weight as a risk factor for the development of chronic diseases of civilization such as obesity, diabetes and cancer. Obstetricians and general practitioners usually recommend milk consumption during pregnancy as a nutrient enriched in valuable proteins and calcium for bone growth. However, milk is not just a simple nutrient, but has been recognized to function as an endocrine signaling system promoting anabolism and postnatal growth by activating the nutrient-sensitive kinase mTORC1. Moreover, pasteurized cow's milk transfers biologically active exosomal microRNAs into the systemic circulation of the milk consumer apparently affecting more than 11,000 human genes including the mTORC1-signaling pathway. This review provides literature evidence and evidence derived from translational research that milk consumption during pregnancy increases gestational, placental, fetal and birth weight. Increased birth weight is a risk factor for the development of diseases of civilization thus involving key disciplines of medicine. With regard to the presented evidence we suggest that dietary recommendations promoting milk consumption during pregnancy have to be re-evaluated.
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