ReviewJournal of developmental origins of health and disease2015
Infant nutrition and lifelong health: current perspectives and future challenges.
Review in Journal of developmental origins of health and disease, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.
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- Association Between Diet Patterns of Human Infants and Growth Differs Across Randomized Formula Groups in the First 18.5 Months.The Journal of nutrition · 2025Trial
- Feeding Practices and Dietary Diversity in the First Year of Life: PreventADALL, a Scandinavian Randomized Controlled Trial and Birth Cohort Study.The Journal of nutrition · 2023Trial
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- "It Matters Who Defines It"-Defining Nutrition through American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Worldviews.Current developments in nutrition · 2026Article
- Limited Evidence of Benefits from Clinical Trials of Human-Identical Milk Oligosaccharides for Infants.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026Review
- The Relationship Between Processed Food Consumption and Periodontal Disease: Sex Disparities in the Majorcan Adolescent Population.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- A Comparison of Infant Feeding Practices in South Asian-Born Mothers and Australian-Born Mothers Living in Australia.Nutrients · 2024Article
- What Works to Improve Nutrition and Food Sustainability across the First 2000 Days of Life: A Rapid Review.Nutrients · 2022Review
- Maternal perspectives on infant feeding practices in Soweto, South Africa.Public health nutrition · 2021Article
- Human Milk Exosomal MicroRNA: Associations with Maternal Overweight/Obesity and Infant Body Composition at 1 Month of Life.Nutrients · 2021Article
- Nutrition as a Key Modifiable Factor for Periodontitis and Main Chronic Diseases.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Longitudinal Profiles of Dietary and Microbial Metabolites in Formula- and Breastfed Infants.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2021Article
- Evaluating the pathways linking complementary feeding practices to obesity in early life.Nutrition reviews · 2020Review
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- Analysis of Association between Breastfeeding and Vegetable or Fruit Intake in Later Childhood in a Population-Based Observational Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Observational
- Epigenome-Wide Association Study Reveals Duration of Breastfeeding Is Associated with Epigenetic Differences in Children.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
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- Duration of breastfeeding is associated with leptin (LEP) DNA methylation profiles and BMI in 10-year-old children.Clinical epigenetics · 2019Article
- Early life nutrition.Science progress · 2018Review
- The Relative Validity of the Menzies Remote Short-Item Dietary Assessment Tool (MRSDAT) in Aboriginal Australian Children Aged 6⁻36 Months.Nutrients · 2018Observational
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Abstract
Understanding the role and importance of nutrition in early postnatal life, as an influence on lifelong vulnerability to poor health, is an important part of current research. We need to be able to define optimal patterns of infant feeding, not just to support growth and development in infancy, but also as determinants of later health. To date, much of the focus on the long-term effects of infant nutrition has been on milk feeding, to compare breast and formula feeding and to evaluate the effects of exclusivity, timing and duration of feeding different types of milk in infancy; other aspects of infant feeding such as age at introduction of solid foods and type of weaning diet have received less attention, and relatively little is known about their links to later health. Contemporary data are needed to enable us to move beyond explanation of historical infant feeding data in order to understand and predict health outcomes in future generations. Ongoing and new population studies, that include infants from diverse settings, will be key to providing generalizable data that can be used to define optimal feeding practice. There are some methodological challenges ahead, although significant progress has already been made, and further progress is envisaged in the future. In particular, the opportunity to bring together epidemiological studies and new mechanistic insights that will help identify key aspects of infant nutrition and their causal effects offer great promise both in moving this field forward as well as the potential for health benefits for future generations.
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