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
Tackling nutrient inadequacy in toddlers and preschool children. (videos)

Tackling nutrient inadequacy in toddlers and preschool children.

Tsz-Ning Mak
Nutrition and growth Yearbook 2020 (publications)

Nutrition and growth Yearbook 2020

Co-Authored by 4 Experts
NNIW95: Importance of Providing Opportunities for Health Behaviors during the School Day (videos)

NNIW95: Importance of Providing Opportunities for Health Behaviors during the School Day

Darla Castelli
NNIW95: Importance of Motor Skills Development (videos)

NNIW95: Importance of Motor Skills Development

Karen Adolph
NNIW95: Nutrition effects on Brain and Cognition in Children (videos)

NNIW95: Nutrition effects on Brain and Cognition in Children

NNIW95: Physical Activity, Brain and Cognition (videos)

NNIW95: Physical Activity, Brain and Cognition

Charles Hillman
NNIW95: Dietary Sugars, as sour as they are made out to be? (videos)

NNIW95: Dietary Sugars, as sour as they are made out to be?

Dennis Bier
NNIW95: Micronutrients needs for children 1-3 years of age (videos)

NNIW95: Micronutrients needs for children 1-3 years of age

Steven Abrams