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
NNIW95: Introducing hard-to-like foods to infants and toddlers: Perspectives from moms and young children (videos)

NNIW95: Introducing hard-to-like foods to infants and toddlers: Perspectives from moms and young children

Susan Johnson
NNIW95: Taste development, perception and food preference in young children (videos)

NNIW95: Taste development, perception and food preference in young children

Catherine Forestell
NNIW95: Transition from Breastfeeding & complementary feeding to "toddler nutrition" in childcare settings (videos)

NNIW95: Transition from Breastfeeding & complementary feeding to "toddler nutrition" in childcare settings

Lorrene Ritchie
NNIW95: Obesity in Toddlers and Young Children: Causes and Consequences (videos)

NNIW95: Obesity in Toddlers and Young Children: Causes and Consequences

Atul Singhal
NNIW95: Growth faltering: Underweight and stunting (videos)

NNIW95: Growth faltering: Underweight and stunting

Andrew Prentice
NNIW95: Toddlers in Brazil: Challenges and opportunities (videos)

NNIW95: Toddlers in Brazil: Challenges and opportunities

Mauro Fisberg
NNIW95: Global landscape of nutrient inadequacy in toddlers (videos)

NNIW95: Global landscape of nutrient inadequacy in toddlers

Alison Eldridge
NNIW95: Toddler development and autonomy: Baby-led weaning, responsive feeding and baby-led eating (videos)

NNIW95: Toddler development and autonomy: Baby-led weaning, responsive feeding and baby-led eating

Maureen Black