What is it about?
Explains how you are what you ate, how food intake during time in utero and before maturity can affect health status later in life.
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Why is it important?
Provides an explanation of why healthful eating is critical during development.
Perspectives
We currently treat obesity, and other diseases, after they have developed, this helps explain why it is essential to begin early to prevent development, as waiting to treat until after their emergence represents a more difficult path to any cure.
Edward Blonz
University of California, San Francisco
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This page is a summary of: You are what you ate: The Biosetpoint Hypothesis, Medical Hypotheses, January 2006, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.02.019.
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