Sian M Robinson

..009), such that higher scores were associated with having been breastfed. These data support experimental findings which suggest that early dietary exposures can have lifelong influences on food choice...

..Future progress will depend on new studies that provide detailed prospective data on duration and exclusivity of breastfeeding together with appropriate characterisation of the weaning diet...

..Muscle growth in the neonatal period may be very sensitive to variations in early nutrition, but little is known about long-term effects of infant feeding on muscle strength...

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..Our findings show that in early pregnancy there is an association between high dietary Ca intake and lower Fe stores. This effect of Ca on one aspect of Fe status may result from its influence on Fe bioavailability...

..Little is known about the dietary patterns of older adults in the UK...

..To examine relationships between diet and grip strength in older men and women and to determine whether prenatal growth modifies these relationships...

..Most studies of infant diet and later body composition focus on milk feeding; few consider the influence of variations in the weaning diet...

..The effects of these patterns on growth and development, and on long-term outcomes need to be investigated...

..Further research is needed to gain insight into the evolution of dietary habits in childhood and to determine how these practices influence obesity risk...

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..This study examines the influence of sociodemographic and anthropometric factors on the quality of the diets of young women in the UK...

..To assess the ability of a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ1) and a food checklist (FCL) to determine energy and macronutrient intakes of adolescent girls in the general population...

..To investigate the relation between breastfeeding, use of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)-fortified formula and neuropsychological function in children...

..The perturbations in this trajectory which influence childhood bone mass warrant further research...

..We conclude that dietary patterns consistent with current advice for healthy eating during pregnancy are associated with greater bone size and BMD in the offspring at 9 yr of age...

..Although many studies have examined the relation between type of milk received in infancy and subsequent cognition, there has been no investigation of the possible effect of variations in the weaning diet...

..Intrauterine life may be a critical period for the programming of later obesity, but there is conflicting evidence about whether pregnancy weight gain is an important determinant of offspring adiposity...

..To evaluate the relative validity of an FFQ for assessing nutrient intakes in 12-month-old infants...

..The graded inverse associations with breastfeeding duration suggest that current efforts to promote breastfeeding and increase duration will have important effects in reducing morbidity in infancy...

..Although there is encouraging evidence of changed health behaviours in pregnancy, young women and those with few educational qualifications may particularly benefit from targeted health initiatives...

..To examine the extent to which women planning a pregnancy comply with recommendations for nutrition and lifestyle...

..Our data provide strong evidence of shared family patterns of diet and suggest that interventions to improve the quality of young women's diets could be effective in improving the quality of their children's diets...

..We observed wide variations in current infant feeding practice, but these variations were not associated with differences in childhood bone mass at age 4 years...

..These results suggest a discordance between influences on skeletal size and volumetric density...

..As each index captures different aspects of size in terms of adiposity, there is the need to determine how the three indices relate to function and how they can be of use in defining risk of ill health in women...

..As oily fish is a major dietary source of omega-3 fatty acids, it is possible that low intake of fish during pregnancy may have adverse effects on the developing fetal brain...

..Evidence suggests that babies' fat mass at birth is greater if their mothers were themselves fatter during pregnancy, but it is unclear whether this association persists into childhood...

..Using applied scores, there was a very small mean decrease in prudent diet score in pregnancy and a very small mean increase in high-energy diet score in late pregnancy, indicating little overall change in dietary patterns in pregnancy...

..We examined for associations of maternal folate status and dietary intake during pregnancy with brain growth and childhood behavioural difficulties in the offspring...

..Low vitamin D status has been linked to adiposity, but little is known of the effects of low status in pregnancy on offspring body composition...

..The first two dietary patterns identified in this cohort of pregnant women appear to be defined similarly by both FFQ and diary data, suggesting that FFQ data provide useful information on dietary patterns...

..82, P = 0.013). These associations provide some support for the hypothesis that variation in exposure to n-6 and n-3 fatty acids during pregnancy influences the risk of childhood wheeze and atopy...

..In animal models, a restricted or unbalanced maternal diet during gestation can influence susceptibility to atherosclerosis, but the relation in humans between maternal diet during pregnancy and atherogenesis is unknown...

..We investigated the relationships of maternal body mass index (BMI) and fat mass with childhood wheeze, and examined the influences of infant weight gain and childhood obesity...

..Prenatal developmental influences play important roles in the human propensity to deposit fat...

..This research aims to compare principal component analysis (PCA) and cluster analysis using dietary data collected from young women in the UK...

..Consistent with a role in placental amino acid transfer capacity and fetal growth TAT1 and LAT3 mRNA expression showed positive associations with infant size at birth...

..The present study aimed to identify factors that influence the food choices of women with lower educational attainment and how women could be helped to improve those choices...

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..To evaluate the relative validity of a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) for assessing nutrient intakes in 6-month-old infants...

..To investigate whether exposure to high maternal concentrations of 25(OH)-vitamin D in pregnancy poses any risk to the child...

..To examine the stability of dietary patterns in young women over a two-year period and to identify factors that influence stability...

..This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of using trained volunteer mealtime assistants to help patients on an acute medical ward for older people at mealtimes...

..A history of mental illness, however, was a strong risk factor...

..Oily fish provides marine n-3 (omega-3) fatty acids that are considered to be important in the growth, development, and health of the fetus and newborn infant...

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..These effects are compounded by accelerated weight gain, which may represent 'compensatory growth' in childhood...

..In addition, among previously documented maternal determinants of neonatal bone mass in healthy pregnancies, maternal fat stores may mediate their effect on fetal bone accrual through variation in fetal leptin concentrations...

..However, the paternal determinants of neonatal bone mass are not known. In this study we explored the relationship between a father's bone mass and that of his offspring...