Prescott, a pediatrician specializing in disease prevention through healthier lifestyles, illustrates how improving conditions in early life positively impacts long-term health and longevity. She describes the current global health crisis of non-communicable diseases and the role of early life in weight gain and obesity; diabetes and metabolic liver disease; heart disease and hypertension; cognitive function, mental health, and age-related decline; bone, muscle, and joint health; cancer; and asthma, allergy, and immune diseases. She also discusses the role of genetics, epigenetics, and telomeres in the early environment; social and environmental determinants of health; and common causes of modern diseases. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation 2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
