PMID- 22724643
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20121126
LR  - 20211021
IS  - 1369-1627 (Electronic)
IS  - 0954-0261 (Print)
IS  - 0954-0261 (Linking)
VI  - 24
IP  - 3
DP  - 2012 Jun
TI  - Diet, sensitive periods in flavour learning, and growth.
PG  - 219-30
LID - 10.3109/09540261.2012.675573 [doi]
AB  - Diet in early infancy has an impact on early growth and the formation of flavour 
      preferences, as well as on later life health outcomes. Although breast milk is 
      the preferred source of nutrition during infancy, more than half of American 
      infants receive infant formula by the age of 4 months. As a group, formula-fed 
      infants weigh more by the age of one year and have a greater risk for later 
      obesity than breastfed infants. However, a recent randomized study found that, 
      when compared to breastfed infants, infants fed an extensively hydrolysed protein 
      formula (ePHF) had more normative weight gain velocity than infants fed cow's 
      milk formula (CMF). Therefore, grouping all formula-fed infants together with 
      respect to certain health outcomes such as obesity may not be appropriate. 
      Scientific evidence also suggests that there are sensitive periods for flavour 
      learning. Infants become familiar with and learn to accept the flavours they 
      experience through their mother's amniotic fluid and breast milk as well as 
      formula. These early experiences influence flavour preferences of children that 
      may affect food choices and therefore later life health. Further research on the 
      influence of early diet on growth, flavour preferences, and food choices is 
      imperative.
FAU - Trabulsi, Jillian C
AU  - Trabulsi JC
AD  - Department of Behavioral Health and Nutrition, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 
      19716, USA. trabulsi@udel.edu
FAU - Mennella, Julie A
AU  - Mennella JA
LA  - eng
GR  - R01 HD037119/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States
GR  - R01 HD072307/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States
GR  - R01HD072307-01/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States
GR  - R01HD37119/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
PT  - Review
PL  - England
TA  - Int Rev Psychiatry
JT  - International review of psychiatry (Abingdon, England)
JID - 8918131
SB  - IM
MH  - Breast Feeding/*psychology
MH  - Child Development/*physiology
MH  - Diet/*psychology
MH  - Humans
MH  - Infant
MH  - Infant Formula/classification/*pharmacology
MH  - Learning/*physiology
MH  - Taste/*physiology
PMC - PMC4575790
MID - NIHMS721749
EDAT- 2012/06/26 06:00
MHDA- 2012/12/10 06:00
PMCR- 2015/09/20
CRDT- 2012/06/26 06:00
PHST- 2012/06/26 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2012/06/26 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2012/12/10 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2015/09/20 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.3109/09540261.2012.675573 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Int Rev Psychiatry. 2012 Jun;24(3):219-30. doi: 10.3109/09540261.2012.675573.