Developmental Origins of Health and Disease FAQ

Basic DOHaD overview with answers to frequently asked questions

Spread the message with digestible DOHaD graphics, and a short Professor Patti video.

These graphics represent different aspects of the DOHaD science:

• The 100 year effect
• First 1,000 days
• First hit second hit
• Interaction of genes, behavior and the environment
• Society provides the environment for the mother

• Professor Patti One Page (English)
• Professor Patti One Page (Spanish)

Download or print tools to help members of all communities eat a balanced diet.

• My Pregnancy Plate/Mi Plato Durante el Embarazo / Russian My Pregnancy Plate
  
  A visual guide for optimal nutrition during pregnancy
  
   
• My Heart-Healthy Plate/Mi plato saludable para el corazón
  
  Detailed guidance, in a simple format, to help people make the best eating choices
  
   
• Your Child's First Foods

Dive deeper into the science and history of DOHaD

 

• Research Briefs: Understanding the science behind DOHaD
  
   
• The Power of Nutrition: Chronic Disease, COVID-19 and Your Health
  
  The OHSU Foundation and Moore Institute Director Kent Thornburg, Ph.D., presented this webinar on the science of DOHaD. It describes how DOHaD research helps explain health disparities in groups more at risk for COVID-19 complications, and how nutrition can provide a path to healthier communities. Watch it here.
  
   
• Epigenetics and equity: the health and social impacts of racism and inequality
  
  Watch Moore Institute fellow Larry Wallack, Dr.Ph. speak at the City Club of Portland.
  
   
• Creating a new nutrition culture for children
  
  Watch this webinar featuring Connie Liakos, R.D. and the Moore Institute's Susan Bagby, M.D. discussing how to engage children in nutrition education. 
  
   
• Beyond genetics: The role of nutrition in health and disease
  
  What if we could prevent hypertension and other chronic diseases by changing how we eat? Watch this Marquam Hill Lecture by Susan Bagby, M.D., to learn more.
  
   
• Maternal diet during pregnancy: lessons from the Dutch famine
  
  Watch Tessa Roseboom, Ph.D., Moore Institute senior international fellow, speak on how early life experience affects not only an individuals lifelong health, but the health of their children and
  
  grandchildren as well.
  
   
• You are what your mother and grandmother ate: transgenerational influences
  
  Learn how the health of your mother and grandmother affects your health in this slide show Susan Bagby, M.D. presented to the Oregon Life Course Network.
  
   
• Food As Medicine
  
  The documentary film "Food As Medicine" showcases the stories of several people experiencing chronic diseases and their journeys toward healing, using food as medicine. It also highlights some of the ways hospitals and other groups are incorporating whole foods in their approaches toward healing. The film features OHSU Moore Institute Director Kent Thornburg, Ph.D., who emphasizes that the way to end chronic disease is through a nutrient-rich, whole foods diet. "Chronic disease will disappear, if we have the will to do it."  Watch the trailer

Take learning a step farther with these interactive educational opportunities:

• Nutrition in a Box
  
  Nutrition curriculum for students in grades 4-8.
  
   
• Community-based interventions
  
  The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation developed the What Works for Health menu of evidence-based programs and policies. The Moore Institute used this database to identify interventions appropriate for communities interested in implementing a community-based project utilizing DOHaD concepts.
  
   
• Abuela, Mama y Yo