Growth & Development

Early life events, including nutrition, play a powerful role in programming a person’s development, metabolism and health for the future. This section covers all aspects of the importance of maternal nutrition in the first 1000 days including nutrition in pregnancy, epigenetics, metabolic programming, breastfeeding, growth & cognitive development and a lot more.

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Human growth patterns – an evolutionary and cross-species perspective

Human growth patterns are distinct due to evolutionary adaptations like bipedalism and a large brain, resulting in…

Andrew Prentice
Regulation of Healthy Growth in Young Humans

The regulation of heathy growth in young humans

Linda Adair
Critical and sensitive periods in child development

Critical and sensitive periods in child development

Ahmad Suryawan
Nourishing healthy brain growth and development in young children

Nourishing healthy brain growth and development in young children

Sarah Cusick
Global and secular trends in patterns of child growth

Global and secular trends in patterns of child growth

Aryeh Stein
Examining the role of environmental exposures on child growth and development

Examining the role of environmental exposures on child growth and development

Usha Ramakrishnan
Impact of gut microbiome on child musculoskeletal health and development

Impact of gut microbiome on child musculoskeletal health and development

Nicolas Bonnet
Future-ready: The importance of nutrition during adolescence

Future-ready: The importance of nutrition during adolescence

Hema Divakar
Fetal growth & its impacts on long-term health

Fetal growth & its impacts on long-term health

Keith Godfrey
Early-life growth and later cardio-metabolic health

Early-life growth and later cardio-metabolic health

Vincent Jaddoe
Breastfeeding and Later Risk of Obesity and NCDs

Breastfeeding and Later Risk of Obesity and NCDs – how strong is the evidence?

Oraporn Dumrongwongsiri