Early Life Nutrition and Lifelong Health - Derbyshire Local Medical ...

BMA Board of ScienceList of figuresFigure 1: The human dietary transition 6Figure 2: The thrifty phenotype hypothesis 9Figure 3: Mismatch model of chronic disease 10Figure 4:Patterns of infant and childhood growth associated withlater heart disease 17Figure 5: Graded effects of nutrition in development on later function 18Figure 6: The fetal supply line for nutrients 19Figure 7: Cycles of disease risk 23Figure 8:Prevalence of breastfeeding according to mother’s socio-economicclassification: Infant Feeding Survey 2005 30Figure 9:Age by which solids had been introduced according to mother’ssocio-economic classification: Infant Feeding Survey 2005 31Figure 10:12-month ‘infant guidelines’ pattern score according toprudent diet score of the mother 33Figure 11:Mean weight and length of breastfed and formula-fed infantsfrom birth to 18 months 37Figure 12:Cardiovascular disease mortality according to weight at one yearin Hertfordshire men 46Figure 13a and 13b: Height and weight scores in infancy of individuals havingCHD in later life 47Figure 14:Percentage of women with ‘prudent diet scores in lowest quarter ofdistribution, according to their educational attainment:6,125 women in the Southampton Women’s Survey 53Figure 15: Components of the epigenetic code 66Early life nutrition and lifelong healthxiii