Most women in the United States do not meet the recommendations for healthful nutrition
and weight before and during pregnancy. Women and providers often ask what a healthy …

Several studies have found an association between eating behaviours and weight status
and obesity risk in childhood. Children's eating behaviours arise from a combination of …

Food neophobia is the tendency to reject or be reluctant to try new and unfamiliar foods. Due
to the period of its occurrence, which falls in the years of early childhood, it can significantly …

This narrative review revises the scientific evidence of recent years on healthy eating in
children and adolescents, making sense of promising avenues of action, from a food system …

Human milk is universally recognized as the preferred food for infants during the first 6 mo of
life because it provides not only essential and conditionally essential nutrients in necessary …

The impact of the olfactory sense is regularly apparent across development. The fetus is
bathed in amniotic fluid (AF) that conveys the mother's chemical ecology. Transnatal …

The diet of pregnant women exposes fetuses to a variety of flavors consisting of compound
sensations involving smell, taste, and chemesthesis. The effects of such prenatal flavor …

Human milk is a highly complex liquid food tailor-made to match an infant's needs. Beyond
documented positive effects of breastfeeding on infant and maternal health, there is …

Few children and adolescents meet federal nutrition or physical activity recommendations,
and many experience poor or inadequate sleep and negative health effects from screen use …

Infants drive many lactation processes and contribute to the changing composition of human
milk through multiple mechanisms. This review addresses the major topics of milk removal; …