Early nutrition has a long-term metabolic impact

Monday, May 2, 2011 - 03:50 in Health & Medicine

Nutrition during the first days or weeks of life may have long-term consequences on health, potentially via a phenomenon known as the metabolic programming effect, according to a study to be presented Monday, May 2, at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Denver.

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