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
Human Milk Oligosaccharides and Health of Infants in Africa (videos)

Human Milk Oligosaccharides and Health of Infants in Africa

Andrew Prentice
Combating childhood obesity by preventing 'fatty liver' in fetus (news)

Combating childhood obesity by preventing 'fatty liver' in fetus

Early iron supplementation appears to provide protection for low birth weight children (news)

Early iron supplementation appears to provide protection for low birth weight children

Mode of birth may affect infant BMI at age 1 and 3 years (news)

Mode of birth may affect infant BMI at age 1 and 3 years

NNI NewsPaper 1/2018 - A Summary of the latest scientific news: Heros in the gut (publications)

NNI NewsPaper 1/2018 - A Summary of the latest scientific news: Heros in the gut

The Nest 38: Protein in Infant Feeding - The Process of Understanding (publications)

The Nest 38: Protein in Infant Feeding - The Process of Understanding

Does Breastfeeding Affect the Child’s Body Composition as an Adolescent? (news)

Does Breastfeeding Affect the Child’s Body Composition as an Adolescent?

Efficacy of Lactobacillus reuteri DSM 17938 for Infantile Colic (news)

Efficacy of Lactobacillus reuteri DSM 17938 for Infantile Colic