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
2’-Fucosyllactose is well tolerated in a partially hydrolysed Whey Protein Infant Formula with a Probiotic

2’-Fucosyllactose is well tolerated in a partially hydrolysed Whey Protein Infant Formula with a Probiotic

Effects of Infant Formula with Human Milk Oligosaccharides on Growth and Morbidity: A Randomized Multicenter Trial

Effects of Infant Formula with Human Milk Oligosaccharides on Growth and Morbidity: A Randomized Multicenter Trial

Evidence-based Medicine and HMOs: Where are we now? Where are we going? (videos)

Evidence-based Medicine and HMOs: Where are we now? Where are we going?

Hania Szajewska
Nutrition for Brain Development (videos)

Nutrition for Brain Development

Ryan Carvalho
Science on protein, metabolic programming and long-term health (videos)

Science on protein, metabolic programming and long-term health

Yvan Vandenplas
Babies fed Infant Formula with 2’FL had immune Biomarkers more like breastfed Babies (publications)

Babies fed Infant Formula with 2’FL had immune Biomarkers more like breastfed Babies

Benefits of two Human Milk Oligosaccharides, 2’Fucosyllactose and Lacto-N-Neotetraose in Infant Nutrition  (publications)

Benefits of two Human Milk Oligosaccharides, 2’Fucosyllactose and Lacto-N-Neotetraose in Infant Nutrition

Therapeutic Diets for IBD: What is the Evidence? (videos)

Therapeutic Diets for IBD: What is the Evidence?

Co-Authored by 2 Experts