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 Nest 7: Pathology / Practical Advice / Infant Nutrition (publications)

The Nest 7: Pathology / Practical Advice / Infant Nutrition

78th Nestlé Nutrition Institute Workshop: International Nutrition: Achieving Millennium Goals and Beyond (events)

78th Nestlé Nutrition Institute Workshop: International Nutrition: Achieving Millennium Goals and Beyond

Enteral Nutrition in the Critically Ill Child: Challenges and Current Guidelines (videos)

Enteral Nutrition in the Critically Ill Child: Challenges and Current Guidelines

Co-Authored by 2 Experts
Complementary Feeding (videos)

Complementary feeding

Advancing Human Milk Oligosaccharide Research: Learnings From Clinical Trials (videos)

Advancing Human Milk Oligosaccharide Research: Learnings From Clinical Trials

Importance of Nutrition Before and During the First 1,000 Days (videos)

Importance of Nutrition Before and During the First 1,000 Days

Andrew Prentice
Micronutrients and Child Growth and Development (videos)

Micronutrients and Child Growth and Development

Child Growth (publications)

Child Growth