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The Journal of Nutrition

Volume 127, Issue 9, September 1997, Pages 1884S-1886S
The Journal of Nutrition

Periods of Risk in Childhood for the Development of Adult Obesity — What Do We Need to Learn?1

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Abstract

The prenatal period, the period of adiposity rebound and adolescence appear to represent critical periods for the development of obesity that persists into adulthood. Nonetheless, relatively little is known about the extent to which incident obesity at each of these intervals contributes to the prevalence of adult obesity. Similarly, little is known about the mechanisms that operate at each of these critical periods to entrain adult obesity.

KEY WORDS:

obesity
childhood
adolescence
critical periods

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Presented as part of a symposium Obesity: Common Symptom of Diverse Gene-Based Metabolic Dysregulations, Little Rock, Arkansas, March 4, 1997. This conference was co-sponsored by the National Center for Toxicological Research/Food and Drug Administration and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. It was supported by generous grants from The Jane B. Mendel Family Trust, Amgen, Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories Division of American Home Products and The Governor Winthrop Rockefeller Memorial Lecture Series-University of Arkansas. Guest editor for this symposium was George L. Wolff, Division of Biochemical Toxicology, National Center for Toxicological Research/FDA, Jefferson, AR 72079.