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
NNI European Meeting 2017: Growth and Immunity (events)

NNI European Meeting 2017: Growth and Immunity

Protein Supply in Infancy (publications)

Protein Supply in Infancy

Co-Authored by 9 Experts
Protein intakes and sources in diets of infants and young children aged 6-18 months in the United Kingdom (news)

Protein intakes and sources in diets of infants and young children aged 6-18 months in the United Kingdom

Protein intakes and sources in diets of infants and young children aged 6-18 months in the United Kingdom (publications)

Protein intakes and sources in diets of infants and young children aged 6-18 months in the United Kingdom

Sugars in human mother's milk are new class of antibacterial agents (news)

Sugars in human mother's milk are new class of antibacterial agents

Breakthrough study shows synbiotic effective in prevention of sepsis in Indian babies (news)

Breakthrough study shows synbiotic effective in prevention of sepsis in Indian babies

Does a mother's pre-pregnancy weight determine her child's metabolism? (news)

Does a mother's pre-pregnancy weight determine her child's metabolism?

Improving diet quality over time linked with reduced risk of premature death (news)

Improving diet quality over time linked with reduced risk of premature death