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
Lipid metabolism in high fructose fed humans (videos)

Lipid metabolism in high fructose fed humans

Food, health and disease: The evidence and reporting the evidence (videos)

Food, health and disease: The evidence and reporting the evidence

Dennis Bier
Deeper down the rabbit hole of data, analysis, and inference errors and suggestions for digging back out (videos)

Deeper down the rabbit hole of data, analysis, and inference errors and suggestions for digging back out

Neural circuits of food intake - is it all about calories? (videos)

Neural circuits of food intake - is it all about calories?

Early weight gain in pregnancy correlates with childhood obesity, first study of its size shows (news)

Early weight gain in pregnancy correlates with childhood obesity, first study of its size shows

Premature infants may get metabolic boost from mom's breast milk (news)

Premature infants may get metabolic boost from mom's breast milk

NNIW89 - Recent Research in Nutrition & Growth (publications)

NNIW89 - Recent Research in Nutrition & Growth

Co-Authored by 15 Experts
NNIW88 - Intestinal Microbiome: Functional Aspects in Health and Disease (publications)

NNIW88 - Intestinal Microbiome: Functional Aspects in Health and Disease