Food Preferences, Diet and Appetite Regulation

28th March 2008 
University of Liverpool, Liverpool   
     
This event will focus on:
* Epidemiology of early obesity and rapid infant weight gain
* Associations between infant weight gain and childhood obesity, the secular trends
* Genetic and environmental determinants of infant weight gain and childhood obesity
* Early origins of childhood obesity: the role of nutritional programming
* Influence of a maternal junk food diet on growth, appetite and food preferences in the offspring - a rat model
* Leptin intake during lactation and metabolic imprinting, food intake and obesity in later life 
* Development and expression of food preferences in childhood - their relationship to obesity
* Exploring the beginnings of food preferences
* Development of food variety in children: relation to obesity
* Modifying ingestive behaviour to prevent childhood obesity

Further Details
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