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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Post-Discharge Nutrition in Preterm Infants: Balancing Growth and Long-Term Health

Post-Discharge Nutrition in Preterm Infants: Balancing Growth and Long-Term Health

Preterm infants need optimized nutritional support post-discharge to promote healthy catch-up growth and support brain development. Their growth status at birth helps guide monitoring and feeding decisions, with weight, length, and head circumference tracked using clinical tools like the Fenton and WHO growth charts. Many infants, especially those with growth faltering, may benefit from fortified human milk, nutrient-dense feeds or preterm/post-discharge formulas to meet higher calorie and protein needs. Studies show that enriched and two-stage formulas with HMOs can safely support

Mindful Microbes: The Interplay Between Environment, Gut Microbiome, Brain, and Behavior
Mindful Microbes: The Interplay Between Environment, Gut Microbiome, Brain, and Behavior

Mindful Microbes: The Interplay Between Environment, Gut Microbiome, Brain, and Behavior

Rebecca Knickmeyer
Exploring the Crosstalk: Nutrition, Microbiome, and Cardiometabolic Health
Exploring the Crosstalk: Nutrition, Microbiome, and Cardiometabolic Health

Exploring the Crosstalk: Nutrition, Microbiome, and Cardiometabolic Health

Noel Mueller
Benefit of partially hydrolyzed protein formula from nutrition perspective and its impact towards children health (videos)
Benefit of partially hydrolyzed protein formula from nutrition perspective and its impact towards children health

Benefit of partially hydrolyzed protein formula from nutrition perspective and its impact towards children health

Yvan Vandenplas
Tackling Nutrient Inadequacy in Toddlers and Preschool Children (videos)
Tackling Nutrient Inadequacy in Toddlers and Preschool Children

Tackling Nutrient Inadequacy in Toddlers and Preschool Children

Tsz-Ning Mak
HMOs levels in breast milk seem to have little influence in infant growth and body composition over the first 4 months of lactation (news)
HMOs levels in breast milk seem to have little influence in infant growth and body composition over the first 4 months of lactation

HMOs levels in breast milk seem to have little influence in infant growth and body composition over the first 4 months of lactation

New Findings on HMO Research
New Findings on HMO Research

New Findings on HMO Research

New research shows the importance of consuming enough vitamin B12 in pregnancy (news)
New research shows the importance of consuming enough vitamin B12 in pregnancy

New research shows the importance of consuming enough vitamin B12 in pregnancy

Video Teaser: Taste development, Perception and Food preference in Young Children (videos)
Video Teaser: Taste development, Perception and Food preference in Young Children

Video Teaser: Taste development, Perception and Food preference in Young Children

Catherine Forestell
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Video Teaser - Taste development, Perception and Food preference in Young Children

Video Teaser - Taste development, Perception and Food preference in Young Children

Catherine Forestell
Key Findings from Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study (FITS) - US
Key Findings from Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study (FITS) - US

Key Findings from Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study (FITS) - US