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
New research shows Fucosylated oligosaccharides in mother’s milk can alleviate effects of caesarean birth on infant gut microbiota (publications)

New research shows Fucosylated oligosaccharides in mother’s milk can alleviate effects of caesarean birth on infant gut microbiota

Researchers find gene that makes some infants susceptible to respiratory and gastrointestinal illness (publications)

Researchers find gene that makes some infants susceptible to respiratory and gastrointestinal illness

Importance of infant diet in establishing a healthy gut (news)

Importance of infant diet in establishing a healthy gut

Poor breakfast quality has a negative effect on cardiovascular health in childhood (news)

Poor breakfast quality has a negative effect on cardiovascular health in childhood

New research shows Fucosylated oligosaccharides in mother’s milk may alleviate effects of caesarean birth on infant gut microbiota (news)

New research shows Fucosylated oligosaccharides in mother’s milk may alleviate effects of caesarean birth on infant gut microbiota

Omega-3 and pregnancy: New Cochrane Review reveals reduced risk of pre-term births (news)

Omega-3 and pregnancy: New Cochrane Review reveals reduced risk of pre-term births

Human Milk Oligosaccharides - Benefits for the Breastfed Infant and Beyond (videos)

Human Milk Oligosaccharides - Benefits for the Breastfed Infant and Beyond

Lars Bode
Recent Concepts in Human Milk Fortification (videos)

Recent Concepts in Human Milk Fortification

Jean-Charles Picaud