This is a difficult area, and studies that try to link nutritional practice to outcome must be designed carefully.
Adipokines, such as leptin, resistin, and adiponectin, critically link nutritional status, physical activity, metabolism, inflammation, and immunity.
They found evidence for the involvement of RLN3 in the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis in mice, suggesting that it may be a signal linking nutritional status and reproductive function.
Relaxin-3 may act as a central signal linking nutritional status and reproductive function.
Nutritional factors play an important role in promoting good health, and a preponderance of evidence has linked nutritional deficiencies to an exacerbation of cognitive deterioration.
This aspect may be linked with nutritional, rather than with infectious or toxicological environmental factors (McLeod et al., 2011 ).
Similar effects of post-hatching stress on adult risk-taking behaviour have been reported in different species (e.g. rats: Macrì and Würbel, 2007; Roman et al., 2006; great tits Parus major: Carere et al., 2005; domestic chicken Gallus gallus domesticus: Freire et al., 2006; zebra finch: Krause et al., 2009) and may be linked to increased nutritional needs (Krause et al., 2009).
Work in this area has focused on nutritional labelling, mostly linked to nutritional knowledge [ 20– 22], and perception of nutrition and health claims [ 23].
The latter finding may be linked to the small font size of nutritional facts information on many food labels in Romania.
