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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Post-Discharge Nutrition in Preterm Infants: Balancing Growth and Long-Term Health

Post-Discharge Nutrition in Preterm Infants: Balancing Growth and Long-Term Health

Preterm infants need optimized nutritional support post-discharge to promote healthy catch-up growth and support brain development. Their growth status at birth helps guide monitoring and feeding decisions, with weight, length, and head circumference tracked using clinical tools like the Fenton and WHO growth charts. Many infants, especially those with growth faltering, may benefit from fortified human milk, nutrient-dense feeds or preterm/post-discharge formulas to meet higher calorie and protein needs. Studies show that enriched and two-stage formulas with HMOs can safely support

Mindful Microbes: The Interplay Between Environment, Gut Microbiome, Brain, and Behavior
Mindful Microbes: The Interplay Between Environment, Gut Microbiome, Brain, and Behavior

Mindful Microbes: The Interplay Between Environment, Gut Microbiome, Brain, and Behavior

Rebecca Knickmeyer
Exploring the Crosstalk: Nutrition, Microbiome, and Cardiometabolic Health
Exploring the Crosstalk: Nutrition, Microbiome, and Cardiometabolic Health

Exploring the Crosstalk: Nutrition, Microbiome, and Cardiometabolic Health

Noel Mueller
Fatty Acids and Fat-Soluble Vitamins in Breast Milk: Factors Affecting their Concentrations and their Physiological Significance (videos)
Fatty Acids and Fat-Soluble Vitamins in Breast Milk: Factors Affecting their Concentrations and their Physiological Significance

Fatty Acids and Fat-Soluble Vitamins in Breast Milk: Factors Affecting their Concentrations and their Physiological Significance

Ardythe Morrow
Proteins in Human Milk: Composition and Biological Effects (videos)
Proteins in Human Milk: Composition and Biological Effects

Proteins in Human Milk: Composition and Biological Effects

Sharon M. Donovan
Early Life Nutrition and Growth Trajectories and Metabolic Outcomes (videos)
Early Life Nutrition and Growth Trajectories and Metabolic Outcomes

Early Life Nutrition and Growth Trajectories and Metabolic Outcomes

Ferdinand Haschke
Early Life Nutrition and Microbiome Development (videos)
Early Life Nutrition and Microbiome Development

Early Life Nutrition and Microbiome Development

E Isolauri
New Meta-Analyis A partially hydrolysed HA-Infant formula and the risk of eczemas and other allergies (publications)
New Meta-Analyis A partially hydrolysed HA-Infant formula and the risk of eczemas and other allergies

New Meta-Analyis A partially hydrolysed HA-Infant formula and the risk of eczemas and other allergies

Hania Szajewska
Maternal Nutrition, Prenatal Development and Offspring Health (videos)
Maternal Nutrition, Prenatal Development and Offspring Health

Maternal Nutrition, Prenatal Development and Offspring Health

Keith Godfrey
Impact of Breastmilk on the Development of the Infant Gut Microbiome: Implications for Health and Development in the First 1,000 Days (videos)
Impact of Breastmilk on the Development of the Infant Gut Microbiome: Implications for Health and Development in the First 1,000 Days

Impact of Breastmilk on the Development of the Infant Gut Microbiome: Implications for Health and Development in the First 1,000 Days

David Mills
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Protein Requirements for the Critically Ill Patient With Renal/Liver Failure: Evidence Update

Protein Requirements for the Critically Ill Patient With Renal/Liver Failure: Evidence Update

Jayshil Patel