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
Nestlé FITS data: Iron deficiency rises to dangerous levels revealing need for innovation (news)
Nestlé FITS data: Iron deficiency rises to dangerous levels revealing need for innovation

Nestlé FITS data: Iron deficiency rises to dangerous levels revealing need for innovation

Modifiable risk factors in the first 1000 days of life predict higher adiposity and cardiometabolic risk (news)
Modifiable risk factors in the first 1000 days of life predict higher adiposity and cardiometabolic risk

Modifiable risk factors in the first 1000 days of life predict higher adiposity and cardiometabolic risk

Allergy Prevention – Where are we now? (videos)
Allergy Prevention – Where are we now?

Allergy Prevention – Where are we now?

Kent Woo
The Long Search for Evidence Based Nutritional Interventions (videos)
The Long Search for Evidence Based Nutritional Interventions

The Long Search for Evidence Based Nutritional Interventions

Hania Szajewska
Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders (FGIDs)
Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders (FGIDs)

Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders (FGIDs)

Video Teaser: Dietary Sugars: Not as Sour as they are made out to be (videos)
Video Teaser: Dietary Sugars: Not as Sour as they are made out to be

Video Teaser: Dietary Sugars: Not as Sour as they are made out to be

Dennis Bier
Video Teaser: Gut Discomfort in Toddlers: Can Nutrition Bring a Solution? (videos)
Video Teaser: Gut Discomfort in Toddlers: Can Nutrition Bring a Solution?

Video Teaser: Gut Discomfort in Toddlers: Can Nutrition Bring a Solution?

Yvan Vandenplas
Sweet-taste perception changes from childhood to adulthood (news)
Sweet-taste perception changes from childhood to adulthood

Sweet-taste perception changes from childhood to adulthood