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
Room for improvement remains in food consumption patterns of young children aged 2–4 years. (publications)

Room for improvement remains in food consumption patterns of young children aged 2–4 years.

Food groups consumed by infants and young children from urban areas of China. (publications)

Food groups consumed by infants and young children from urban areas of China.

Co-Authored by 8 Experts
Many infants and young children are not compliant with Mexican and international complementary feeding recommendations for milk and other beverages (publications)

Many infants and young children are not compliant with Mexican and international complementary feeding recommendations for milk and other beverages

Co-Authored by 5 Experts
Unravel the Power of 2'-FL and Bifidus in Gut Health and Beyond (videos)

Unravel the Power of 2'-FL and Bifidus in Gut Health and Beyond

Yvan Vandenplas
High protein intake in early infancy metabolic consequence (videos)

High protein intake in early infancy metabolic consequence

Trends in mean nutrient intakes of US infants, toddlers, and young children from 3 Feeding Infants and Toddlers Studies (FITS). (publications)

Trends in mean nutrient intakes of US infants, toddlers, and young children from 3 Feeding Infants and Toddlers Studies (FITS).

Co-Authored by 5 Experts
Differences in complementary feeding of 6 to 23 month olds in China, US and Mexico. (publications)

Differences in complementary feeding of 6 to 23 month olds in China, US and Mexico.

Co-Authored by 3 Experts
Food sources of energy and nutrients in the diets of infants and toddlers in urban areas of China, based on one 24-hour dietary recall. (publications)

Food sources of energy and nutrients in the diets of infants and toddlers in urban areas of China, based on one 24-hour dietary recall.