Articles and Books

Understanding the gut microbiome's role reveals significant connections between the gut and various organ systems. The gut microbiome influences overall health including immune function, metabolism, and mental health, developing hand in hand with the immune system. Maternal factors like breastfeeding significantly shape the microbiome, aiding immune training. Proper nutrition, especially breastfeeding and diverse solid foods, supports a robust microbiome, offering promising health interventions.

Based on information from the WHO in 2022, 1 in 8 people are living with obesity globally. This global obesity epidemic, or globesity, has become a concern due to its lifelong effects especially in raising the risks for communicable and non-communicable diseases, more specifically in cases that begin in childhood. Given the many factors that may contribute to it, such as the environment, epigenetics, and early life nutrition, the long-term goal is addressing overweight and obesity in the different life stages through different preventive measures.

In this book, renowned experts in their field summarize and annotate selected peer-reviewed manuscripts that were published between July 1, 2022, and June 30, 2023 on malnutrition, obesity and body composition, epigenetics, nutrition for preterm and term infants, maternal nutrition and nutrition in pregnancy, cognition, chronic diseases, and their intersections with nutrition and growth. Each article was evaluated for clinical importance, especially for healthcare professionals who deal with these specific cases, and discusses its applications in their everyday practice.