Early nutritional environment: focus on health effects of microbiota and probiotics
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...In pregnant women with obesity, a vicious cycle of nonfavorable metabolic development may be generated if their altered gut microbiota composition is transferred to the infant (20,21)....
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...We have reported that maternal nutritional status affects the immunomodulatory potential of milk in terms of microbes and immunomodulatory factors (TGFβ2, sCD14, and cytokines) (21)....
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...Obese human adults on a hypocaloric diet (either low carbohydrate- or low fat-containing diet) have shown significant increases in the faecal proportions of Bacteroidetes paralleled by weight loss over a one-year intervention in a few subjects, although species diversity was reported to remain constant (Ley et al., 2006)....
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...The mother’s metabolism and physical state and adjustments to them comprise cues which result in adjustments in the foetus and infant (Gluckman et al., 2008)....
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...The relation between early nutrition and later metabolic disease is likely to be U-shaped, with an increased risk at both ends (Gluckman et al., 2008)....
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...These early adaptive responses will however incur costs particularly if the environment after birth deviates from the environment predicted during foetal life; restricted in utero nutrition followed by abundant nutrition in Western life-style increases susceptibility to metabolic disorders, including increased visceral fat deposition and insulin resistance (Gluckman et al., 2008; Ong et al., 2000)....
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