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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Annales 74.3 - Human Milk: Lessons from Recent Research (publications)
Feeding Practices in the Introduction of Complementary Feeding and Implications for Future Healthy Eating

Feeding Practices in the Introduction of Complementary Feeding and Implications for Future Healthy Eating

Complementary feeding period begins when human milk or formula alone can no longer meet an infant’s nutritional needs…

Annales 74.3 - Human Milk: Lessons from Recent Research (publications)
Biological and Experiential Factors That Impact the Acceptance of Complementary Foods

Biological and Experiential Factors That Impact the Acceptance of Complementary Foods

Annales 74.3 - Human Milk: Lessons from Recent Research (publications)
Prevention of Food Allergy: Harmonizing Perspectives from the East and West

Prevention of Food Allergy: Harmonizing Perspectives from the East and West

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Efficacy of Lactobacillus reuteri DSM 17938 for Infantile Colic

Iron deficiency early in life can have long-lasting consequences for the brain  (news)
Iron deficiency early in life can have long-lasting consequences for the brain

Iron deficiency early in life can have long-lasting consequences for the brain