The Effects of Maternal Nutrition on Metabolism of Infants and Children

Dear Colleagues,

A considerable body of evidence have demonstrated that maternal nutrition during pregnancy and lactation have long-term effects on later health and disease, via increasing risk of common non-communicable diseases such as obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. This phenomena is referred to “Developmental origins of adult health and disease”. Thus, it is suggested that prevention of such diseases may need to begin even before pregnancy. There is an emerging need to understand how nutrition during sensitive time periods of early developmental plasticity can impact on offspring metabolism.

The objective of this Special Issue on “The Effects of Maternal Nutrition on Metabolism of Infants and Children” is to showcase the latest research focusing on topics among this non-comprehensive list:

· Maternal nutrition and developmental origins of adiposity (i.e. body fatness), contributing to offspring obesity and its complication;

· Maternal macro- and micronutrient intake and offspring metabolic syndrome and diabetes, etc;

· Early-life nutrition interventions and long-term cardiometabolic outcomes;

· Maternal nutrition intake, gut microflora changes, and consequences on health;

· Molecular and epigenetics mechanisms underlying how maternal nutrition reprogram offspring metabolism.

· Maternal food safety and offspring outcomes

Dr. Linglin Xie

Guest Editor

Manuscripts should be submitted via our online editorial system at https://imr.propub.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to start your submission. Manuscripts can be submitted now or up until the deadline. All papers will go through peer-review process. Accepted papers will be published in the journal (as soon as accepted) and meanwhile listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, reviews as well as short communications are preferred. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office to announce on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts will be thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. Please visit the Instruction for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) in this open access journal is 2500 USD. Submitted manuscripts should be well formatted in good English.