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Fetal Programming

The Connection between Nutrition and Disease

  • 1st Edition - February 27, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Miljana Z. Jovandaric
  • Language: English

Fetal Programming: The Connection between Nutrition and Disease covers the intestinal microbiota of newborns, how it is extremely prone to changes influenced by the method of del… Read more

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Description

Fetal Programming: The Connection between Nutrition and Disease covers the intestinal microbiota of newborns, how it is extremely prone to changes influenced by the method of delivery, diet, use of antibiotics and probiotics by the mother, environment, socioeconomic status of the mother, geographical location, infections with pathogenic microorganisms, and more. The book describes the root of disease—oxidative stress and improper nutrition—and how they specifically effect pregnancy. In recent years, it has become more and more evident that nutrition is crucial for the proper development of the immune system of the fetus, and its disruption can lead to disease.

This period in a newborn’s life is crucial for interventions on the intestinal microbiota in order to reduce the risks of developing chronic diseases by correcting dysbiosis.

Key features

  • Explores research linking the father's diet and its affect on the fetal programming of the child's disease
  • Includes different common diets analyzing the effects on health
  • Describes diseases due to improper nutrition, as well as treatment through nutrition

Readership

Healthcare professionals, clinician, physicians, obstetricians, pediatricians, nutritionists, early researchers

Table of contents

1: Microbiota and food
Miljana Z. Jovandaric

2: Breastfeeding—Fetal programming of disease
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3: Preconception nutrition of the father—A factor in the child’s health
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4: Nutrition to health
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5: Vegan Diet—Health
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6: Mediterranean diet
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7: Fast food and disease
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Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: February 27, 2026
  • Language: English

About the author

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Miljana Z. Jovandaric

Dr. Miljana Z. Jovandaric, neonatologist and researcher, graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, with pediatric specialization completed in 1999 at the University Children's Hospital Belgrade and neonatal specialization in 2003. She earned a Master’s degree in 2006 with a thesis on lipid infants in gestational diabetes and a PhD in 2018 with a dissertation on the effects of hypoxia on electrolytes and lipids in term newborns at the University of Belgrade. Since 2020 she has been a Research Associate at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade. Jovandaric serves as Head of the Department of Sick Newborns at the Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics, Department of Neonatology, University Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade. She sits on the editorial boards of multiple journals, including Maternal and Pediatric Nutrition Journal and Journal of Neonatal Research and Pediatrics Care, and has authored scientific papers presented at national and international venues. Her research interests span across neonatology, metabolism, perinatology, microbiology, and neurology.

Affiliations and expertise
University Clinical Center of Serbia, Serbia

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