A perfect recipe to make healthy future generations?
From the beginning of life, nutrition is at the heart of healthy future generations. Our first 1,000 days are paramount in ensuring a healthy start for all of us. Anvesha Mahendra explains why good nutrition is so important before conception and during pregnancy for women and their babies and their future health – and how understanding this better and its advocacy could be the key to many global public health challenges.
Prioritising maternal and child health seems to me to be the key to managing many global public-health challenges
—Dr Anvesha Mahendra
Read the research storyImpact
- Health impact: understanding the effect of nutrition during pregnancy on children's future health outcomes
Key information
- Partners and collaborators: Born in Bradford
- Disciplines: obstetrics, nutrition, public health
- Investigators: Dr Anvesha Mahendra, Dr Michael Zulyniak
Keywords: diabetes, food science, nutrition, healthcare, obstetrics, pregnancy, gynaecology, infant health