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Findings of the BNF Task Force Report ‘Nutrition and Development: short- and long-term consequences for health’ will be presented at a conference on 21st May 2013, the Royal College of Surgeons, London WC2A 3PE

If you haven’t yet reserved your place at the conference please do so via the website www.nutrition.org.uk, or call us on 020 7557 7930.

Conference presentations will be as follows and the day will conclude with a panel discussion:

Welcome and introduction to the new Task Force

Prof Tom Sanders, Kings College London

Introduction to early life and later disease

                Dr Siân Robinson, University of Southampton

Normal growth and critical windows of development

                Prof Harry McArdle, Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Aberdeen

Establishing a healthy gut flora in early life

                Dr Anne McCartney, University of Reading

Perinatal effects of sex hormones in programming of susceptibility to disease

                Prof Richard Sharpe, University of Edinburgh

Early nutrition, mental development and mental ageing

                Prof Marcus Richards, University College London

Asthma and allergic disease: influence of early nutrition

                Prof Graham Devereux, University of Aberdeen

Early life nutrition and risk of cardiovascular disease in later life

                Prof Tom Sanders, Kings College London

Influence of nutrition in early life and risk of obesity

                Dr Paul Taylor, Kings College London

Public health implications: conclusions and recommendations of the Task Force

                Prof Judy Buttriss, The British Nutrition Foundation