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
Prenatal vitamin D tied to lower risk of underweight babies and birth defects (news)

Prenatal vitamin D tied to lower risk of underweight babies and birth defects

Maternal vitamin D deficiency may cause cognitive and physical development impairment in newborns (news)

Maternal vitamin D deficiency may cause cognitive and physical development impairment in newborns

Expert consensus finds that higher protein intake benefits adult bone health (news)

Expert consensus finds that higher protein intake benefits adult bone health

Eating fish twice a week reduces heart, stroke risk (news)

Eating fish twice a week reduces heart, stroke risk

Early-life obesity impacts children's learning and memory, study suggests (news)

Early-life obesity impacts children's learning and memory, study suggests

Annales 76.1 - Hot Topics in Nutrition – 75 Years Later (publications)

Annales 76.1 - Hot Topics in Nutrition – 75 Years Later

Ferdinand Haschke
Evidence-Based Medicine and Clinical Research: Both are Needed, Neither is Perfect (videos)

Evidence-Based Medicine and Clinical Research: Both are Needed, Neither is Perfect

Hania Szajewska
NNIW89 - Recent Research in Nutrition and Growth (publications)

NNIW89 - Recent Research in Nutrition and Growth

Co-Authored by 15 Experts