![]() The new concepts in this book are crucial to understanding the daunting public health burden in societies undergoing rapid transition from poverty to affluence. If inappropriate they can trigger obesity, diabetes and heart disease, formerly thought to result solely from adult lifestyle. These exciting insights into predictive adaptive responses suggest new ways of protecting the health of the fetus, infant and adult. These processes - in the matrix of the womb - are evolutionary echoes of mechanisms which allowed our hunter-gatherer ancestors to survive. New discoveries reveal how crucial interactions which determine our destiny occur before birth, when our genes interact with their environment as the embryo and fetus develop.
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