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
How HMOs boost immunity (videos)

How HMOs boost immunity

Yvan Vandenplas
Healthy eating recommendations for 1-5 year-olds in Ireland (news)

Healthy eating recommendations for 1-5 year-olds in Ireland

The Nest 46: Functional Gastrointestinal disorders in Infants (publications)

The Nest 46: Functional Gastrointestinal disorders in Infants

Co-Authored by 4 Experts
Toddlers Nutrition: What do we know

Toddlers Nutrition: What do we know?

Video Teaser: Nutritional Deficiencies: Cognitive and Social Development Among Toddlers (videos)

Video Teaser: Nutritional Deficiencies: Cognitive and Social Development Among Toddlers

Maureen Black
HMOs: A window of opportunity or a weapon in strengthening immunity (publications)

HMOs: A window of opportunity or a weapon in strengthening immunity

Co-Authored by 5 Experts
Learnings from human milk science (videos)

Learnings from human milk science

Co-Authored by 2 Experts
Nestlé Research on Human Milk Oligosaccharides: Latest Update (publications)

Nestlé Research on Human Milk Oligosaccharides: Latest Update