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

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Siddarth Ventakesh

Microbiome-targeted dietary regiments to combat pediatric malnutrition

Sid Venkatesh
Early-life contributors to child well-being (infographics)

Early-life contributors to child well-being

Annales 77.1 - Early-Life Contributors to Child Well-Being (publications)

Annales 77.1 - Early-Life Contributors to Child Well-Being

Too many babies are born too small (news)

Too many babies are born too small

Study finds micronutrient deficiencies common at time of celiac disease diagnosis (news)

Study finds micronutrient deficiencies common at time of celiac disease diagnosis

Pre-pregnancy micronutrient supplementation may be crucial to maternal health while expecting: RCT (news)

Pre-pregnancy micronutrient supplementation may be crucial to maternal health while expecting: RCT

Low vitamin D at birth raises risk of higher blood pressure in kids (news)

Low vitamin D at birth raises risk of higher blood pressure in kids

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High sugar levels during pregnancy could lead to childhood obesity

High sugar levels during pregnancy could lead to childhood obesity

High fiber during pregnancy reduces risk of celiac disease in children, research finds (news)

High fiber during pregnancy reduces risk of celiac disease in children, research finds