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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Human growth patterns – an evolutionary and cross-species perspective

Human growth patterns are distinct due to evolutionary adaptations like bipedalism and a large brain, resulting in…

Andrew Prentice
Regulation of Healthy Growth in Young Humans

The regulation of heathy growth in young humans

Linda Adair
Critical and sensitive periods in child development

Critical and sensitive periods in child development

Ahmad Suryawan
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Keynote lecture, lan Macdonald

Ian MacDonald
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An offspring's health starts before conception, Shiao-Yng Chan

Shiao-Yng Chan
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Human milk benefit research, more to learn? Norbert Sprenger

Norbert Sprenger
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Better early: Critical windows in brain and cognitive development, Bernadette Benitez

Bernadette Benitez
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Taste the difference, Marlou Lasschuijt

Marlou Lasschuijt
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Strategies to develop balanced dietary habits, Eslam ElBaroudy

Eslam El-Baroudy
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Hidden hunger in "healthy diets", Elizabeth George Jacob

Elizabeth George Jacob
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Two sides of the same coin: strategies to address over- and undernutrition, Andrew Prentice

Andrew Prentice