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Choline: The underappreciated nutrient that's vital for our brains
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Study confirms link between maternal diet and risk to infant behavioural health
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Horner D et al 2025 - A western dietary pattern during pregnancy is associated with neurodevelopmental disorders in childhood and adolescence
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How mother’s diet affects baby’s health: What insights from different cultures can tell us
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Sugar in first 1,000 days linked to poor health later
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Gracner T et al 2024 - Exposure to sugar rationing in the first 1000 days of life protected against chronic disease
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Britain’s postwar sugar craze confirms harms of sweet diets in early life
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Four in five pregnant women in Ireland are iron deficient – here’s why that’s worrying
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The Stronger Minds Podcast: Why I'm Starting a Beef with the NICE People
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Food for thought: How diet affects the brain over a lifetime
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Study suggests prenatal diet may play a role in autism
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Friel C et al 2024 - Healthy Prenatal Dietary Pattern and Offspring Autism
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Nutritional epigenetics education reduces ultra-processed food intake in parents of children with autism and ADHD
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Godfrey et al 2023 - Maternal B-vitamin and vitamin D status before, during, and after pregnancy and the influence of supplementation preconception and during pregnancy
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Wu et al 2023 - Brain Iron Homeostasis and Mental Disorders.
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Stunting in infancy linked to differences in cognitive and brain function
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Wijeakumar S et al 2023 - Stunting in infancy is associated with atypical activation of working memory and attention networks
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Omega-3 supplementation during pregnancy reduces infant risks for food allergy
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Colombo J et al 2023 - Improved Neurodevelopmental Outcomes at 5.5 Years of Age in Children Who Received Bovine Milk Fat Globule Membrane and Lactoferrin in Infant Formula Through 12 Months: A Randomized Controlled Trial
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Study demonstrates adding complex component of milk to infant formula confers long-term cognitive benefits
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Eating emulsifiers during pregnancy and lactation linked to health risks in mouse offspring
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Milà-Guasch M et al 2023 - emulsifier consumption programs offspring metabolic and neuropsychological health in mice
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FAB WEBINAR - Feeding Humanity: The Key Role of Nutrition in the Mental Health Crisis
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Miyake et al 2023 - Maternal dietary fiber intake during pregnancy and child development: the Japan Environment and Children's Study
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A mother's diet can protect her grandchildren's brains, genetic model study shows
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Wang W et al 2023 - An intestinal sphingolipid confers intergenerational neuroprotection
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YOU NEED TO HEAR THIS! - The Food Programme - Feeding Your Brain: A Users Guide
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Low fibre intake during pregnancy may delay development in infants' brains
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Miyake K et al 2023 - Maternal dietary fiber intake during pregnancy and child development: the Japan Environment and Children's Study
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Professor warns of micronutrient deficiency risks in 'sustainable' diets
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Derbyshire & Maes 2023 - The Role of Choline in Neurodevelopmental Disorders-A Narrative Review Focusing on ASC, ADHD and Dyslexia
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Dietary Interventions for ADHD: Emerging Research and Considerations
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Can we train our taste buds for health? A neuroscientist explains how genes and diet shape taste
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The Shrinking Brain and the Global Mental Health Crisis
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Critical Brain Nutrients: Evidence that Current Dietary Advice Harms Mental Health – and Potential Solutions
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Shrivastava K et al 2023 - Maternal overnutrition is associated with altered synaptic input to lateral hypothalamic area
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Chouraqui J et al 2023 - Risk Assessment of Micronutrients Deficiency in Vegetarian or Vegan Children: Not So Obvious
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Higher rates of autism and ADHD in American children may reflect poor diet and toxic exposures
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Planning for a baby? Why both men and women should consider quitting alcohol before and during pregnancy
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Father's alcohol consumption before conception linked to brain and facial defects in offspring
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Thomas K et al 2023 - Preconception paternal ethanol exposures induce alcohol-related craniofacial growth deficiencies in fetal offspring
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Ockene M et al 2023 - Accelerated Longitudinal Weight Gain Among Infants With In Utero COVID-19 Exposure
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Lower birth weight, more weight gain seen with in utero COVID-19 exposure
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Excess calories during development may alter the brain and spur adult overeating
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Dufault R et al 2023 - Higher rates of autism and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in American children: Are food quality issues impacting epigenetic inheritance?
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Can certain nutrients protect against the effects of fetal alcohol exposure?
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Maternal obesity can affect foetal development
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Crawford M et al 2023 - The imperative of arachidonic acid in human reproduction
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Offspring obesity: review stresses “urgent need” to address maternal vitamin D deficiencies
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Bad diets are not just for Christmas – they’re for life
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Obeid et al 2022 - Association between Maternal Choline, Fetal Brain Development, and Child Neurocognition: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Human Studies
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Upadhyaya et al 2022 - Maternal Vitamin D Levels during Pregnancy and Offspring Psychiatric Outcomes: A Systematic Review
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Cottrell et al 2022 - Effect of umbilical cord essential and toxic elements, thyroid levels, and Vitamin D on childhood development
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Gertler & Gracner 2022 - The Sweet Life: The Long-Term Effects of a Sugar-Rich Early Childhood
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Omega-3 fatty acid could boost IQ for preterm babies
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Bath et al 2022 - A systematic review of iodine intake in children, adults, and pregnant women in Europe-comparison against dietary recommendations and evaluation of dietary iodine sources
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Ustun B et al 2022 - Flavour Sensing in Utero and Emerging Discriminative Behaviours in the Human Foetus
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Origins of Health - How Important Is Iron for the Developing Brain?
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Maternal intake of choline during pregnancy impacts children's sustained attention
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Marshall N et al 2021 - The importance of nutrition in pregnancy and lactation: lifelong consequences
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Hellström et al 2021 - Association of DHA and AA Serum Levels With Retinopathy of Prematurity in Preterm Infants
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Halved risk for severe retinal disease in extremely premature infants
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Early Nutrition E-Academy
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Study: Maternal vitamin D deficiency could impair baby's cognitive development
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Voltas N et al 2020 - Effect of Vitamin D Status during Pregnancy on Infant Neurodevelopment
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The benefits of DHA & Choline for brain development and function - FOOD MATTERS LIVE
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Doom J et al 2020 - Adolescent internalizing, externalizing, and social problems following iron deficiency at 12–18 months: The role of maternal responsiveness
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Alcohol consumption by fathers before conception could negatively impact child development (and choline supplementation in pregnancy reduces similar brain damage from maternal alcohol consumption)
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The UK must introduce folic acid fortification in foods, say scientists
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Conner et al 2020 - The Impact of Paternal Alcohol Consumption on Offspring Brain and Behavioral Development
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Could some people with schizophrenia in poorer nations simply have a vitamin deficiency?
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Epigenetic Influences on Depressed Mood: A Concise Review
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Infant blood markers predict childhood mental health
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High-fat (Omega-6-rich, Omega-3 deficient) maternal diet can cause brain damage in the unborn child
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'High-fat' (Omega-6-rich, Omega-3 deficient) maternal diet can cause life-long changes in the fetal brain
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Koletzko et al 2020 - Should formula for infants provide arachidonic acid along with DHA? A position paper of the European Academy of Paediatrics and the Child Health Foundation
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Child nutrition experts make case for fatty acid rethink in infant formula
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Gut instincts: Researchers discover first clues on how gut health influences brain health
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Chu et al 2019 - The microbiota regulate neuronal function and fear extinction learning
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Unending Fear and the Gut-Brain Axis - A mouse study finds a remarkable microbial connection to fear
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Today's obesity epidemic may have been caused by childhood sugar intake decades ago
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Early maternal anemia tied to intellectual disability, ADHD and autism
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New study on omega-3 fatty acid supplements and preterm birth prevention
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Derbyshire 2019 - Could we be overlooking a potential choline crisis in the United Kingdom?
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Processed foods may hold key to rise in autism
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Olivier-Van Stichelen et al 2019 - Maternal Exposure to Non-nutritive Sweeteners Impacts Progeny’s Metabolism and Microbiome
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Researchers reveal issues with WHO recommended pregnancy supplements
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Kalisch-Smith et al 2019 - Periconceptional alcohol exposure causes female-specific perturbations to trophoblast differentiation and placental formation in the rat
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Drinking alcohol even at conception damages placenta development: study
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New report card could mark governments' progress in improving preconception health
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Drinking alcohol at conception shown to harm brain development (in rats) – new study
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No safe amount of alcohol during pregnancy, suggest researchers
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In the first thousand days, proper brain growth depends on a healthy microbiota
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Maternal diet during pregnancy may modulate the risk of ADHD symptoms in children
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Expectant mothers can prevent fetal brain problems caused by the flu, study finds
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Keats et al 2019 - Multiple-micronutrient supplementation for women during pregnancy
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Adequate prenatal omega-3 intake can vastly lower preterm birth risk: DSM expert
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Clinical trial: Prenatal DHA prevents blood-pressure increase from obesity during childhood
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Essential nutrient may help fight Alzheimer's across generations
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Eyles et al 2018 - The association between neonatal vitamin D status and risk of schizophrenia
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McQuire et al 2018 - Screening prevalence of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in a region of the United Kingdom: A population-based birth-cohort study
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Ogundipe et al 2018 - Randomized controlled trial of brain specific fatty acid supplementation in pregnant women increases brain volumes on MRI scans of their newborn infants
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Studies raise questions over how epigenetic information is inherited
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The Mother and Child Foundation - Prenatal nutrition: of paramount importance
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Prenatal exposure to folic acid fortification of foods may reduce mental illness risk
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Barker et al 2018 - Intervention strategies to improve nutrition and health behaviours before conception
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Pregnancy diet and offspring "hyperactivity-inattention symptoms"?
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Lancet nutrition series: Pre-pregnancy supplementation ‘insufficient’ to boost offspring health
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Maternal binge drinking linked to mood problems and alcohol abuse in offspring
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Parental diet before conception affects child's health
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Stephenson et al 2018 - Before the beginning: nutrition and lifestyle in the preconception period and its importance for future health
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Prenatal choline intake increases grey and white matter in piglets
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Pregnant women deficient in vitamin D may give birth to obese children
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Nutrients in child's first 1,000 days key for neurodevelopment
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Caudill et al 2018 - Maternal choline supplementation during the third trimester of pregnancy improves infant information processing speed
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Eating more foods with choline during pregnancy could boost baby's brain
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Improved nutrition for extremely low birth weight preemies
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There is no safe amount of alcohol during pregnancy, new study shows
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Can Vitamin D Exposure In Utero Alter Children’s Metabolic Profiles?
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Nutrition one of most 'significant individual factors' for child development in first 1,000 days: Comprehensive evidence paper
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What babies eat – before and just after birth – can impact them for life, says new book
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Health risks of light drinking in pregnancy confirms that abstention is the safest approach
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What is the global prevalence of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder?
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Dad's diet influences brain agility of kids: Mice study
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Chinese famine data shows no long-term health effects except for schizophrenia
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Prenatal Nutritional Deficiency and Psychosis: Where Do We Go From Here?
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Mother's diet in pregnancy may have lasting effects for offspring
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Van De Pette et al 2017 - Visualizing Changes in Cdkn1c Expression Links Early-Life Adversity to Imprint Mis-regulation in Adults.
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Harel et al 2017 - The effect of subclinical infantile thiamine deficiency on motor function in preschool children
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Unhealthy diet during pregnancy could lead to ADHD in children, researchers find
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Obese parents triple obese offspring risk, experts warn
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Martens et al 2016 - Maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index and newborn telomere length
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Mother's BMI may affect the biological age of newborn babies
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The lasting legacy of early nutrition
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How obesity in mothers can harm their babies: children born to obese parents 'risk heart attacks, diabetes and asthma in later life'
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Fewer indications of ADHD in children whose mothers took vitamin D during pregnancy
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Unhealthy diet during pregnancy could be linked to ADHD
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Cusick & Georgieff 2016 - The Role of Nutrition in Brain Development: The Golden Opportunity of the “First 1000 Days”
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Imprinting obesity: Mum's metabolic health may have lasting impact on baby
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Mother's high-fructose diet may lead to foetal metabolic disorders: Study
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Saad et al 2016 - High-fructose diet in pregnancy leads to fetal programming of hypertension, insulin resistance, and obesity in adult offspring.
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“Exciting results”: Tufts/Harvard meta-analysis supports omega-3s for child brain development
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Saben et al 2016 - Excess Maternal Fructose Consumption Increases Fetal Loss and Impairs Endometrial Decidualization in Mice
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Why fish intake by pregnant women improves the growth of a child's brain
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Sonnenburg et al 2016 - Diet-induced extinctions in the gut microbiota compound over generations.
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Your poor diet might hurt your grandchildren's guts
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Crawford et al 2015 - The European Food Safety Authority recommendation for polyunsaturated fatty acid composition of infant formula overrules breast milk, puts infants at risk, and should be revised
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A simple daily pregnancy pill could boost population IQ and save the NHS money
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High-fat (and high-sugar) diet, obesity during pregnancy harms stem cells in developing fetus
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Schmidt et al, 2014 - Maternal Intake of Supplemental Iron and Risk of Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Development of brain function altered by prenatal alcohol exposure
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FDA - Fish: What Pregnant Women and Parents Should Know
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Vitamin A, E, D deficiencies 'dramatically' higher in pre-term babies
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Pregnant mother's fatty diet may alter baby's brain
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Vogt et al 2014 - Neonatal Insulin Action Impairs Hypothalamic Neurocircuit Formation in Response to Maternal High-Fat Feeding
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Jacka et al 2013 - Maternal and early postnatal nutrition and mental health of offspring by age 5 years: a prospective cohort study
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Generation game: Effects of omega-3 deficiency may worsen over consecutive generations
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Kuhn et al 2013 - Influence of trans fat and omega-3 on the preference of psychostimulant drugs in the first generation of young rats
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Study calls for maternal vitamin D supplementation to reduce Multiple Sclerosis risk
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High fish intake during pregnancy leads to better verbal intelligence, motor skills in children
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Mental disorders affect more than a third of Europeans
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BBC Radio 4 - The First 1000 Days - A Legacy for Life - Part 3: Future Generations
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BBC Radio 4 - The First 1000 Days - A Legacy For Life - Part 2: Infancy
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BBC Radio 4 - The First 1000 Days: A Legacy for Life - Part 1: In the womb
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Lafourcade et al 2011 - Nutritional omega-3 deficiency abolishes endocannabinoid-mediated neuronal functions
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Moore et al 2009 - Confectionery consumption in childhood and adult violence
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Ames 2006 - Low micronutrient intake may accelerate the degenerative diseases of aging through allocation of scarce micronutrients by triage
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Zeisel 2006 - The fetal origins of memory: The role of dietary choline in optimal brain development
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McCann et al 2006 - An overview of evidence for a causal relationship between dietary availability of choline during development and cognitive function in offspring.
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Bourre 2004 - Roles of unsaturated fatty acids (especially omega-3) in the brain at various ages
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Crawford et al 2003 - The potential role for arachidonic and docosahexaenoic acids in protection against some central nervous system injuries in preterm infants
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Helland et al 2003 - Maternal supplementation with very-long-chain n-3 fatty acids during pregnancy and lactation augments children's IQ at 4 years of age.
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01 - Book - The Shrinking Brain
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FAB Webinar - Feeding Better Mood, Behaviour, Learning and Sleep - Evidence and Best Practice
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Strong link between Western diet during pregnancy and ADHD
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