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Growing healthy muscles to optimise metabolic health into adult life

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 October 2014

S. A. Bayol*
Affiliation:
School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
C. R. Bruce
Affiliation:
School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
G. D. Wadley
Affiliation:
School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
*
*Address for correspondence: S. A. M. Bayol, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Melbourne, VIC 3125, Australia. (Email stephanie.bayol@deakin.edu.au)

Abstract

The importance of skeletal muscle for metabolic health and obesity prevention is gradually gaining recognition. As a result, interventions are being developed to increase or maintain muscle mass and metabolic function in adult and elderly populations. These interventions include exercise, hormonal and nutritional therapies. Nonetheless, growing evidence suggests that maternal malnutrition and obesity during pregnancy and lactation impede skeletal muscle development and growth in the offspring, with long-term functional consequences lasting into adult life. Here we review the role of skeletal muscle in health and obesity, providing an insight into how this tissue develops and discuss evidence that maternal obesity affects its development, growth and function into adult life. Such evidence warrants the need to develop early life interventions to optimise skeletal muscle development and growth in the offspring and thereby maximise metabolic health into adult life.

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