Our children are our future. Further studies show how parents’ nutrition and lifestyle deeply condition the health and quality of life of the newborn baby. In fact, in addition to the genetic component, it is evident that nutritional factors influence the expression of genes through "epigenetic" mechanisms, which are maintained throughout life. These mechanisms are particularly active in the early stages of life, starting from the environment in which the oocyte and then the embryo develop. In this lapse of time, that is the whole pregnancy and the first 2 years of the child (the first 1000 days of life), the genes are particularly plastics and most suffer the effects of a correct or incorrect nutrition.

The focus on the major difficulties in the world in terms of maternal and neonatal malnutrition is the basis of the collaboration between the Italia Pavilion and ama nutri cresci, communication campaign the Giorgio Pardi Foundation.

The Foundation with the Italian Pavilion EXPO 2015 offers an international scientific conference and a round table inside EXPO. The aim is to explain to people what nutrition problems are and how to deal with them before-during-after pregnancy.

conceived by Sabino Maria Frassà
Scientific Coordinator: Professor Irene Cetin