Abstract
Different nomenclatures have been use to explain the incidence of obesity in later life associated with possible adverse environmental stimuli occurred in early life, such as early exposure to obesogenic diets (e.g. High-Fat Diets) during pregnancy and/or suckling. Many authors have named this phenomenon of "metabolic or fetal programming" (Barker, 2002; Armitage et al., 2005), or "phenot…