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Nutrition and the early origins of adult disease.
Asia Pacific journal of clinical nutrition - 1 Jan 2002
Newnham John P, Moss Timothy J M, Nitsos Ilias, Sloboda Deborah M, Challis John R G
Abstract excerpt
There is now overwhelming evidence that much of our predisposition to adult illness is determined by the time of birth. These diseases appear to result from interactions between our genes, our intrauterine environment and our postnatal lifestyle. Those at greatest risk are individuals in communities making a rapid transition from lives of 'thrift' to a lives of 'plenty'. From a global perspective, such origins of...
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