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

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

Veit Grote
Metabolic regulation of infant growth (videos)
Metabolic regulation of infant growth

Metabolic regulation of infant growth

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

Breastfeeding, Breast Milk Composition, and Growth Outcomes

Kim F. Michaelsen
Bone as Central to Metabolism (videos)
Bone as Central to Metabolism

Bone as Central to Metabolism

Thomas L. Clemens
Fat Tissue Growth and Development in Humans (videos)
Fat Tissue Growth and Development in Humans

Fat Tissue Growth and Development in Humans

Peter Arner
Muscle Growth (videos)
Muscle Growth

Muscle Growth

Marta L. Fiorotto
Bone Growth: Growth in Height Occurs at the Growth Plate (videos)
Bone Growth: Growth in Height Occurs at the Growth Plate

Bone Growth: Growth in Height Occurs at the Growth Plate

Ernst B. Hunziker
The Implications of Growth as a Time Specific Event (videos)
The Implications of Growth as a Time Specific Event

The Implications of Growth as a Time Specific Event

Michelle Lampl