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Welcome to the Early Nutrition Programming Project Archive
The project was a large collaborative investigation into the
long-term consequences of early nutrition by metabolic programming. It brought together
a multi-disciplinary team of scientists from 38 institutions in 16 European
countries.
It was funded under the Food Quality and Safety Priority of the Sixth
Framework Programme for Research and Technical Development of the European Community (FOOD-CT-2005-007036). The EU contributed 13.4 million euros
towards a total cost of 16.5 million euros.
The project ran from 2005 until October 2010 and was coordinated by Professor
Koletzko of the Children's Hospital, University of Munich, Germany.
It investigated early nutrition programming using an approach which
integrated knowledge from randomised controlled trials, prospective observational studies and animal, cellular and molecular techniques. This enables a better understanding of the extent to which nutritional influences
in early life can programme a person's development and metabolism in adulthood.
Other aspects of the project included studies to investigate consumer
attitudes to early nutrition programming and the economic importance of early nutrition programming.
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