Nutrition and metabolic development.
Perinatal changes in metabolic processes owing to a change from a high carbohydrate to a high fat (milk) diet at birth are described. It is pointed out that early changes in food composition may have permanent effects and it is suggested that, in the rat, this may be due to structural alterations in the brain at a time when it is still differentiating. Such changes are irreversible.
D000818:Animals; D005314:Embryonic and Fetal Development; D005260:Female; D006128:Growth; D008660:Metabolism; D051379:Mice; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D011247:Pregnancy; D051381:Rats