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. 2012 Jan;3(1):71-2.
doi: 10.3945/an.111.001453. Epub 2012 Jan 5.

Early life nutrition disparities: where the problem begins?

Rafael Pérez-Escamilla  1 , Odilia Bermúdez
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Early life nutrition disparities: where the problem begins?

Rafael Pérez-Escamilla et al. Adv Nutr. 2012 Jan.
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Conflict of interest statement

Author disclosures: R. Pérez-Escamilla and O. Bermúdez, no conflicts of interest.

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The childhood obesity epidemic: a life cycle framework for understanding ethnic/racial disparities. Women who become pregnant when they are overweight/obese are more likely to gain excessive weight during pregnancy [compared with the Institute of Medicine gestational weight gain recommendations according to prepregnancy BMI category (1)] and to retain more weight postpartum. Minority women tend to have more children; thus, they are exposed more times to cycle A. Women who are overweight/obese and/or gain excessive weight during pregnancy are more likely to deliver newborns predisposed to becoming obese early on in life, especially if optimal infant feeding practices are not followed (cycle B). This may set the child on a track that can lead a girl to remaining overweight/obese by the time she gets pregnant for the first time, starting her exposure to cycle A and the transfer of the obesity risk to the next generation (cycle B) (7).
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