LONG-TERM OBJECTIVE
The Committee on Early Nutrition is exploring the impact of nutritional interventions and nutritional status in early life on later life health outcomes.
CURRENT ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS
Recognizing a need to clarify the existing science around the early effects of nutrition on subsequent health in later life, the committee convened a panel of international experts to examine this subject. Their deliberations have been published as a supplement to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition entitled “Early Risk Determinants and Later Health Outcomes: Implications for Research Prioritization and the Food Supply.” As a follow-up activity, the committee commissioned and submitted an evidence-based review that identifies early risk markers of obesity. This paper is the first to systematically identify possible early indicators of later obesity and need for intervention.
PRESENTATIONS
Adult Obesity: Early Prediction as a Strategy for Prevention
Obesity in early childhood predicts obesity in adulthood, particularly when at least one parent also is obese. Fetal conditions may adversely impact postnatal obesity risk, and early life experiences may induce permanent changes in physiologic function that program the long-term regulation of energy balance. Given that obesity may be programmed in utero and during early life, preventive measures should be initiated at critical early time points. This webinar highlights the committee's evidence-based review on early markers of later obesity as well as clinical applications.
The speakers for this event were: Emily Oken, MD, MPH, Harvard School of Public Health; and Linda McCargar, PhD, RD, University of Alberta. Slides from the presentation are available here and a full recording of the webinar is available here.
ILSI Europe Pre-International Congress on Obesity Meeting
The Committee on Early Nutrition was instrumental in organizing this 2010 symposium in partnership with ILSI Europe. Slides from the presentation are available here.
PUBLICATIONS