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
Feeding Children with Gastrointestinal Impairment

Feeding Children with Gastrointestinal Impairment

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The future of HMOs moving to synbiotics as a way to optimize health benefits

The future of HMOs moving to synbiotics as a way to optimize health benefits

Co-Authored by 4 Experts
ESPGHAN 2024

The future of HMOs ESPGHAN 2024

Co-Authored by 3 Experts
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The Nest 53: Learning to Eat

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Learning to Eat: How Food Preferences and Eating Habits are Formed Early in Life

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Disorder of Gut-Brain Interaction: Insights, Causes and Management

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Nutritional supplementation before and during pregnancy may reduce early childhood obesity risk

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Nutrition and Growth Yearbook 2024