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
Pre-term Nutrition and Human Milk Fortification (videos)

Pre-term Nutrition and Human Milk Fortification

Jean-Charles Picaud
NNIW88 – Intestinal Microbiome: Functional Aspects in Health & Diseases (publications)

NNIW88 – Intestinal Microbiome: Functional Aspects in Health & Diseases

Got a picky eater? How 'nature and nurture' may be influencing eating behavior in young children (news)

Got a picky eater? How 'nature and nurture' may be influencing eating behavior in young children

Eating peanuts while breastfeeding could protect babies from allergy, study suggests  (news)

Eating peanuts while breastfeeding could protect babies from allergy, study suggests

European Academy of Pediatric Societies (EAPS) 2018

European Academy of Pediatric Societies (EAPS) 2018

Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) Annual Meeting 2018

Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) Annual Meeting 2018

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5th International Conference on Nutrition & Growth (N&G 2018)

Water-Soluble Vitamins in Breast Milk: Factors Affecting their Concentrations and their Physiological Significance (videos)

Water-Soluble Vitamins in Breast Milk: Factors Affecting their Concentrations and their Physiological Significance