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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Feeding children with gastrointestinal impairment

Feeding children with GI impairment ESPGHAN 2024

Children with gastrointestinal impairments, including those with neurological diseases, congenital heart disease, short bowel syndrome, neuromuscular disorders, and cancer, often face significant nutritional challenges. Addressing these challenges requires careful consideration of nutritional strategies and enteral formula selection to ensure optimal health outcomes for these vulnerable patient populations. In this NNI Symposium at ESPGHAN 2024, experts Prof. Claudio Romano, Prof. Antonella Diamant, and Dr. Graeme O’Connor, detail these conditions, risks for malnutrition, and the various

Flavia Indrio NNIW101

Gut bone axis: Clinical implications

Co-Authored by 3 Experts
Siddarth Ventakesh

Microbiome-targeted dietary regiments to combat pediatric malnutrition

Sid Venkatesh

Individualized Nutrition of Preterm: What are the Challenges?

Diet,the Gut Microbiome and the Metabolome of IBD

Diet,the Gut Microbiome and the Metabolome of IBD

What Should Dietary Guidelines for Infants and Young Children Look Like?

What Should Dietary Guidelines for Infants and Young Children Look Like?

Interventional strategies to promote appropriate growth
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Interventional strategies to promote appropriate growth

Non-Communicable disease

Non-Communicable disease

Atul Singhal
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Early Influences on Brain Development and Epigenetics

Molecular clues to how nutrition impacts on immunity: the exosome

Molecular clues to how nutrition impacts on immunity: the exosome

R. Heidkamp

Evidence for CF Interventions (Nutritional Counseling and/or Food Supplementation Effects on Growth)