Scientists study the link between children's nutrition and adult diseases

[Guest guest]

Colleagues, the following is FYI and does not necessarily reflect my own

opinion. I have no further knowledge of the topic. If you do not wish to

receive these posts, set your email filter to filter out any messages

coming from @nutritionucanlivewith.com and the program will remove

anything coming from me.

---------------------------------------------------------

Public release date: 15-Jan-2008

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-01/udg-sst011508.php

Contact: Cristina Campoy Folgoso

ccampoy@...

34-629-308-695

Universidad de Granada

Scientists study the link between children's nutrition and adult diseases

This release is also available in Spanish.

Researchers from the Department of Pediatrics of the University of

Granada, in collaboration with another 38 universities and companies

from 16 European countries, will study the effects of children’s

nutrition on the onset of cardiovascular problems, diabetes, obesity,

allergies, weak bones, neuromotor functioning and children’s behavioural

aspects. The EARNEST project (The Early Nutrition Programming Project)

aims to help in the development of policies, information campaigns,

documents, guides and recommendations on the nutritional components of

children’s food, for the improvement of children’s formulas. It also

collaborates in the design of plans preventing and avoiding nutrition

effects on the metabolism.

Thanks to this project, the University of Granada becomes the only

Spanish investigation centre taking part in this ambitious initiative,

the first of its kind in Europe. Cristina Campoy Folgoso, the professor

heading this initiative in Granada, emphasizes that the “early nutrition

programming” is quite a recent subject in the health and science field

today. “Different studies show how food can have long-term consequences

in children’s growth and health during pregnancy, the breastfeeding

period and childhood. Moreover, food can also have influence over the

later onset of diseases”, states the researcher.

Study of diseases

This project aims to answer the question about the extent of nutrition

effects of prenatal, postnatal, and infant diets of someone among the

current European population in critical periods of development as well

as the efficiency of actions preventing and avoiding long, medium and

short-term metabolic effects on health.

The project will tackle randomly assigned clinical tests and nutritional

interventions during pregnancy and childhood, pilot studies, tests on

animals, cells and genomita, as well as social and economic studies

connected with nutrition in the first stages of life and their

significance in the development of later diseases. The researchers hope

to find the genetic mechanism of diseases such as diabetes and obesity

with this project. “Obesity, a growing global epidemic, begins, partly,

during child development –explains professor Campoy Folgoso-. It is

known that breastfed children’s growth kinetics differ from those fed

with commercial foods. These children easily gain weight and height.

Considering these consequences, linked with eating habits, the purpose

of this project is to study whether breastfeeding can prevent a later

risk of obesity.

###

About EARNEST

This investigation project is financed by the European Commission and is

made up of 38 multidisciplinary groups of professionals from 16 European

countries. Scientists from different institutions of all over Europe are

involved in it: 33 academic institutions, 5 industries and 7 PYMES

companies form the project, coordinated by Ludwig Maximilians University

in Munich (Germany). It began in April 2005 and will last until 2010.

* Coordinator: Professor Berthold Koletzko. Dr. von Hauner Children’s

Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians. Ludwig-Maximilians Universty, Munich, Germany.

* Institutions taking part: Medical Research Council-Institute of Child

Health (London, United Kingdom); University of Pécs (Pécs, Hungary);

University of Granada (Spain); University of London-Alliance (United

Kingdom); Danish Epidemiology Science Centre (Copenhagen, Denmark);

Aarhus University (Denmark); Instituto municipal de Investigació Médica

(Barcelona, Spain); Inst of Public Health (Oslo, Norwich); University of

Bristol Alliance (United Kingdom); The Children’s Memorial Health

Institute (Warsaw, Poland); GSF National Research Centre for Environment

and Health (Germany); University Hospital Groningen (Holland); Turku

University Central Hospital (Turku, Finland); University of Nottingham

(United Kingdom); Louvain Universities Alliance (Belgium); Rowett

Research Institute (Scotland, United Kingdom); University of Cambridge

(United Kingdom); Research Institute for the Biology of Farm Animals

(Germany); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France); INSERM

(Paris, France); RIVM National Institute for Public Health and the

Environment (Holland); Institute of Physiology (Prague, Czech Republic);

University Medical Centre (Utrecht, Holland); University of Surrey

(United Kingdom).

* Companies: DNA testing Ltd (Scotland, United Kingdom); Schothorst Feed

Research (Holland); Ashwell Associates (United Kingdom); RDE Software

GmbH (Munich, Germany); Institute for Market Research, Strategy and

Planning (Munich, Germany); Arexis (Gothenburg, Sweden); BioScientifica,

(Bristol, United Kingdom).

* Industry: Numico (Friedrichsdorf, Germany); Ordesa, (Spain); Orafti

(Belgium); Mead (USA); Nestlé International.

Web: www.metabolic-programming.org

--

ne Holden, MS, RD < fivestar@... >

" Ask the Parkinson Dietitian " http://www.parkinson.org/

" Eat well, stay well with Parkinson's disease "

" Parkinson's disease: Guidelines for Medical Nutrition Therapy "

http://www.nutritionucanlivewith.com/