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
Complementary Feeding and Infant Growth: Timing, Composition and Mode of Feeding (videos)

Complementary Feeding and Infant Growth: Timing, Composition and Mode of Feeding

Metabolic regulation of infant growth (videos)

Metabolic regulation of infant growth

Berthold Koletzko
Breastfeeding, Breast Milk Composition, and Growth Outcomes (videos)

Breastfeeding, Breast Milk Composition, and Growth Outcomes

Bone as Central to Metabolism (videos)

Bone as Central to Metabolism

Fat Tissue Growth and Development in Humans (videos)

Fat Tissue Growth and Development in Humans

Muscle Growth (videos)

Muscle Growth

Bone Growth: Growth in Height Occurs at the Growth Plate (videos)

Bone Growth: Growth in Height Occurs at the Growth Plate

The Implications of Growth as a Time Specific Event (videos)

The Implications of Growth as a Time Specific Event