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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION
Volume 94, Issue 6, Pages 1759S-1764SPublisher
AMER SOC NUTRITION-ASN
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.110.000562
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The relevance of nutrition during pregnancy and early infancy in defining short-term health and survival has been well established. However, the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) paradigm provides a framework to assess the effect of early nutrition and growth on long-term health. This body of literature shows that early nutrition has significant consequences on later health and wellbeing. In this article, we briefly present the main consequences of malnutrition that affect human growth and development and consider how the DOHaD paradigm, with its evolutionary implications, might contribute to better addressing the challenge of improving nutrition. We examine how this paradigm is particularly appropriate in understanding the health and nutrition transition in countries that face the double burden of nutrition-related diseases (acute malnutrition coexisting with obesity and other chronic diseases). We focus on stunting (low height-for-age) to examine the short-as well as long-term consequences of early malnutrition with a life-course, transgenerational, and multidisciplinary perspective. We present current global and regional prevalence of stunting and discuss the need to reposition maternal and infant nutrition not only in health and nutrition intervention programs but also in consideration of the emerging research questions that should be resolved to better orient program and policy decisions. Am J Clin Nutr 2011;94(suppl):1759S-64S.
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