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
Nestle and British Nutrition Foundation Horizon Scanning Project (publications)

Nestle and British Nutrition Foundation Horizon Scanning Project

Nutrition and Growth 2016 (publications)

Nutrition and Growth 2016

Co-Authored by 4 Experts
The Role of DHA In the First 1,000 Days (publications)

The Role of DHA In the First 1,000 Days

Co-Authored by 2 Experts
Malnutrition and Stress During Pregnancy Affect Baby’s Muscle Development (news)

Malnutrition and Stress During Pregnancy Affect Baby’s Muscle Development

The age of insight and learning (videos)

The age of insight and learning

Supplement of workshop series: Nutrition and Stroke (publications)

Supplement of workshop series: Nutrition and Stroke

Microbiota in Functional GI Disorders in Infancy (videos)

Microbiota in Functional GI Disorders in Infancy

Microbiota and NEC (videos)

Microbiota and NEC