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Breast-Feeding: Early Influences on Later Health is a new book
which draws together areas of research in early lifel programming
of adult health, with a unique focus on the post-natal period in
terms of early life programming particularly the extent to which
differences in infant feeding practices can lay an indelible
imprint on metabolism and behaviour, and hence affect later
function and risk of disease. This is an area where there is much
less information currently available than there is for fetal
programming, and the book raises many new questions and highlights
numerous areas where further research is needed. The book chapters
are arranged in three core sections: Chapters 1-4 lay down some of
the basic biology of early life development; Chapters 5-9 examine
how breast-milk and breast-feeding might programme these processes
by acting as modulators of development; Chapters 10-17 examine the
epidemiological evidence that such effects do indeed exist. In
addition the book includes unique chapters on the Evolution of
human lactation and complementary feeding, The Macy-Gyorgy Prize
Lecture My Milky Way, updates on HIV and Breast-Feeding and on
Early breastfeeding cessation and infant mortality in low-income
countries, and measuring trace immune factors in human milk, all
important topics that have such a critical impact on child health
and survival in many countries."
Breast-Feeding: Early Influences on Later Health is a new book
which draws together areas of research in early lifel programming
of adult health, with a unique focus on the post-natal period in
terms of early life programming particularly the extent to which
differences in infant feeding practices can lay an indelible
imprint on metabolism and behaviour, and hence affect later
function and risk of disease. This is an area where there is much
less information currently available than there is for fetal
programming, and the book raises many new questions and highlights
numerous areas where further research is needed. The book chapters
are arranged in three core sections: Chapters 1-4 lay down some of
the basic biology of early life development; Chapters 5-9 examine
how breast-milk and breast-feeding might programme these processes
by acting as modulators of development; Chapters 10-17 examine the
epidemiological evidence that such effects do indeed exist. In
addition the book includes unique chapters on the Evolution of
human lactation and complementary feeding, The Macy-Gyorgy Prize
Lecture My Milky Way, updates on HIV and Breast-Feeding and on
Early breastfeeding cessation and infant mortality in low-income
countries, and measuring trace immune factors in human milk, all
important topics that have such a critical impact on child health
and survival in many countries."
John Marin was a major figure among the cutting-edge circle of
American modernist artists who showed his work in Alfred
Stieglitz’s New York galleries from 1909 until 1950. A new
collection of the artist’s work at the Arkansas Arts Center,
given by Marin’s daughter-in-law, forms the basis of this first
book of essays and images to concentrate on Marin’s drawings in
the context of Marin’s life, his watercolors, and his etchings.
We follow Marin to his most famous subject matter: New York City
and the coast of Maine. Foundational drawings and an unfinished
watercolor of the towering Woolworth Building, still under
construction when they were made in 1912, begin the story of a
renowned group of watercolors first exhibited in 1913 at Alfred
Stieglitz’s 291 Gallery and then at the ground-breaking 1913
Armory Show. Other images take us to lesser-known locales, such as
the Ramapo Mountains in New York and New Jersey where Marin often
painted when he couldn’t get to Maine. More obscure aspects of
the artist’s career explored in this collection include portraits
of friends and family, charming drawings of animals, and circus
scenes. Becoming John Marin invites readers to look over this
important artist’s shoulder as he created and honed the sketches
he would interpret into completed watercolors and etchings,
illustrating the evolution of his style and methods as he
transformed from intuitive draftsman to innovative modernist
watercolorist and etcher.
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