The productive traits of beef cattle are orchestrated by their genetics, post-natal environmental conditions, and also the intrauterine background. Both under- or overnutrition, as specific dietary components, able to promote persistent effects on offspring. This occurs because factors act not only affecting availability substrates for fetal anabolism oxidative metabolism, but signals that regu...

Epidemiological studies have provided convincing evidence that obesity increases the risk for cancers of the oesophagus (adenocarcinoma), colon, pancreas, breast (post-menopausal), endometrium and kidney. The magnitude of the increase in risk varies between cancer sites. For an increase in BMI of 10 kg/m2 relative risks are approximately 2.3 for adenocarcinoma of the oesophagus, 1.5 for colon c...

Children in developing countries pass stools that are very different from those passed by children in Europe. These stools reflect a diet of unrefined carbohydrate with low-energy density, and which due to the large volume results in an energy deficit in the child. This energy deficit is now considered to be the major cause of the almost universal undernutrition. Much of the improved health in ...