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
American toddlers consume too much added sugar (news)

American toddlers consume too much added sugar

Study links vitamin A levels to infant growth (news)

Study links vitamin A levels to infant growth

NNIW91 - Nurturing a Healthy Generation of Children: Research Gaps and Opportunities

NNIW91 - Nurturing a Healthy Generation of Children: Research Gaps and Opportunities

NNIW91 - Nurturing a Healthy Generation of Children: Research Gaps and Opportunities (publications)

NNIW91 - Nurturing a Healthy Generation of Children: Research Gaps and Opportunities

ASN 2018 - Samuel J. Fomon Award for Young Investigators (news)

ASN 2018 - Samuel J. Fomon Award for Young Investigators

Which targeted nutritional approaches can bolster micro-preemies' brain development? (news)

Which targeted nutritional approaches can bolster micro-preemies' brain development?

Risk factors involved in the early onset and severity of childhood obesity (news)

Risk factors involved in the early onset and severity of childhood obesity

Researchers find gut microbiome plays an important role in atherosclerosis (news)

Researchers find gut microbiome plays an important role in atherosclerosis