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
Lipid metabolism in high fructose fed humans (videos)
Lipid metabolism in high fructose fed humans

Lipid metabolism in high fructose fed humans

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

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

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

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

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

Harvey J. Grill
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

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

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

NNIW89 - Recent Research in Nutrition & Growth (publications)
NNIW89 - Recent Research in Nutrition & Growth

NNIW89 - Recent Research in Nutrition & Growth

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NNIW88 - Intestinal Microbiome: Functional Aspects in Health and Disease (publications)
NNIW88 - Intestinal Microbiome: Functional Aspects in Health and Disease

NNIW88 - Intestinal Microbiome: Functional Aspects in Health and Disease

Co-Authored by 3 Experts