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
HMOs story so far (videos)
HMOs story so far

HMOs story so far

Yvan Vandenplas
Breastfeeding: a personalised medicine for long-term immune health (videos)
Breastfeeding: a personalised medicine for long-term immune health

Breastfeeding: a personalised medicine for long-term immune health

Valerie Verhasselt
The Role of Human Milk Oligosaccharides in the Management of Cow’s Milk Protein Allergy (videos)
The Role of Human Milk Oligosaccharides in the Management of Cow’s Milk Protein Allergy

The Role of Human Milk Oligosaccharides in the Management of Cow’s Milk Protein Allergy

Anna Nowak-Węgrzyn
European Academy of Pediatric Societies (EAPS) 2020
European Academy of Pediatric Societies (EAPS) 2020

European Academy of Pediatric Societies (EAPS) 2020

Milk Oligosaccharides: Structure and Function (videos)
Milk Oligosaccharides: Structure and Function

Milk Oligosaccharides: Structure and Function

Lars Bode
Interview with Valerie Verhasselt : Influence of Breastfeeding on Immune Trajectory (videos)
Interview with Valerie Verhasselt : Influence of Breastfeeding on Immune Trajectory

Interview with Valerie Verhasselt : Influence of Breastfeeding on Immune Trajectory

Valerie Verhasselt
Interview with Josef Neu: Gut Microbiota, Host Gene Expression and Cell Traffic via Milk (videos)
Interview with Josef Neu: Gut Microbiota, Host Gene Expression and Cell Traffic via Milk

Interview with Josef Neu: Gut Microbiota, Host Gene Expression and Cell Traffic via Milk

Josef Neu
Interview with Pia S. Pannaraj: Human Milk Virome (videos)
Interview with Pia S. Pannaraj: Human Milk Virome

Interview with Pia S. Pannaraj: Human Milk Virome

Pia S. Pannaraj