Recognising that certain congenital abnormalities may be averted with proper attention to nutritional requirements, this text presents strategies for the care of perinatal parents, from preconception, through infancy and after hospital release.
Perinatal Nutrition describes the role of nutrition in newborn growth and development, the reduction of health risks, and the prevention of morbidity in the neonatal period and infancy. This important reference presents valuable nutritional strategies for the care of perinatal p…
"Striving to improve pregnancy outcomes and deliver appropriate nutritional care during the neonatal period and infancy, this reference describes the role of nutrition in the optimization of newborn growth and development, the reduction of health risks, and the prevention of mor…
This prenatal guide gives you a complete program of specific nutrition and environmental lifestyle changes to help you have a better baby. Based on the emerging science of epigenetics, the authors show how you can change the way your environment interacts with your genes, so you…
This prenatal guide gives you a complete program of specific nutrition and environmental lifestyle changes to help you have a better baby. Based on the emerging science of epigenetics, the authors show how you can change the way your environment interacts with your genes, so you…
"This book, which brings together the perspectives of leading researchers from Europe, the USA and Australasia, provides the reader with a detailed account of the evidence for and against the nutritional programming of human disease, and considers the biological basis of program…
The process through which events in utero exert effects that manifest as disease decades later is termed fetal programming. The book is divided into three parts. ‘Programming the fetus’ sets out the basic principles of programming and considers the potential contribution of un…