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
The double burden of childhood malnutrition (news)

The double burden of childhood malnutrition

Sugar intake during pregnancy is associated with allergy and allergic asthma in children (news)

Sugar intake during pregnancy is associated with allergy and allergic asthma in children

Research on active substances in breast milk can begin (news)

Research on active substances in breast milk can begin

Late teen years are key period for bone growth (news)

Late teen years are key period for bone growth

Interview with Maureen Black: Impact of Nutrition on Growth, Brain and Cognition (videos)

Interview with Maureen Black: Impact of Nutrition on Growth, Brain and Cognition

Maureen Black
Interview with Ken Ong: Healthy Growth and Development (videos)

Interview with Ken Ong: Healthy Growth and Development

Evolutionary explanation? Research reveals how gut bacteria adapted to human breast milk (news)

Evolutionary explanation? Research reveals how gut bacteria adapted to human breast milk

NNI European Meeting - Nutrition of Preterms and further preventive nutritional aspects (publications)

NNI European Meeting - Nutrition of Preterms and further preventive nutritional aspects