Children's diets are important as they can directly impact health and development as well as increase risks for chronic diseases later in life. What children eat early in life can also cause epigenetic changes that affect disease risk and health behaviors long-term. Providing children with proper nutrition from the beginning helps give them a good start in life.

1. Giving Children a Good Start
- the importance of diet
Ian S.Young
Chief Scientific Advisor, DOH NI
Director of Health and Social Care Research and Development

9. Impact of early-life nutrition on
chronic disease risk
 Direct effects on phenotype
 Epigenetic impacts
 Impacts on subsequent behaviours